A light-hearted comedy drama about a mother, daughter and grandmother living together under one roof – based on the stories by Guardian columnist Michele Hanson

What does it feel like to be middle-aged? For Gillian it feels like being twenty-seven in your own head, sixty-five in the mirror, ninety to your children and your mother still thinking you're twelve…

Gillian lives with her 19-year-old daughter and 89-year-old mother, and life is a constant balancing act. Who is the chief dissenter among the three women who live noisily together under one roof: opinionated daughter, Chloe, very opinionated elderly mother Berenice, or the poor beleaguered Gillian in-between? Stuck in the middle, Gillian feels she must carry on being sensible, while everyone else - the young and the old - run amok. Her mother grumps about in the garden and her daughter sobs upstairs. She finds on these occasions that she tends to play football with the dog. For Gillian, living in a rather dramatic household, empty nest syndrome seems a delightful prospect…
Cast and credits
Written by Wendy Lee, Jenny Landreth, Sally Worboyes, Mike Walker
Based on stories by Michele Hanson
Directed by Cathryn Hor, Tabitha Potts, Marylin Imrie
Produced by Marylin Imrie
Gillian - Paola Dionisotti (series 1-6), Janet Maw (series 7-10)
Bernice - Edna Dore
Chole - Luisa Bradshaw-White
Other parts played by John Rowe, Frances Jeater, Bruce Alexander, Angela Down, Ann Beach, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tilly Gaunt, Andrew Falvey, Ben Crowe, Tilly Vosburgh, Priyanga Elan, Giles Fagan, Irene Sutcliffe, Ann Beach, Harry Myers, Alison Pettitt, Sarah Jane Holm, Sean Maguire, Andrew Falvey, Iwan Thomas, Brian Parr, David Antrobus.
First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15th - 19th Jun 1998 (series 1), 22nd - 27th Jun 1998 (series 2), 29th Jun - 3rd Jul 1998 (series 3), 6th - 10th Jul 1998 (series 4), 13th - 17th Jul 1998 (series 5), 20th - 24th Jul 1998 (series 6), 14th - 16th Dec 1998 (series 7), 21st - 25th Dec 1998 (series 8), 28th Dec 1998 - 1st Jan 1999 (series 9), 4th - 8th Jan 1999 (series 10).
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