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Radio 4 Extra,08 Sep 2010,30 mins

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When Jen starts trying to date again, things are bound to go awry. She manages to get involved in a complicated online mix up which involves the neighbours and the kids' teacher... Mum's on the Run is a modern-day twist on the single-family situation. It follows the hectic life ("What life?") of single mum, Jen. Starring Ronni Ancona. Mother of two, Master of none - Jen seems to spend most of her time as an unpaid chauffeur to a 15 year-old teenage existentialist son, Toby, and a tonally challenged recorder-practising 11 year-old daughter, Felicity She must also cope with her jazz musician ex-husband, the fiercely competitive and annoying downstairs neighbour and a huge crush on her son's history teacher. Written by Alexis Zegerman. Jen ..... Ronni Ancona Mr. Rigby ..... John Gordon Sinclair Shelley ..... Alexis Zegerman Vivienne ..... Christine Kavanagh Felicity ..... Amy Dabrowa Toby ..... Alexander Heath Radio DJ/Waiter ..... Lloyd Thomas Adam ..... Caleb Hughes Producer: Dawn Ellis First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010.

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