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New Radio 4 comedy ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?’ will put a smile on your face
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Need something to put a smile on your face? The new Radio 4 comedy Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen? has the feel of a future classic, said Patricia Nicol in The Sunday Times. It’s not just the “honed chemistry” between Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, it’s also the “hyperbolically loopy lines” courtesy of writer David Quantick (whose TV credits include Brass Eye and Veep). French plays author Florence Ransom, who is “driven doolally” by her movie-star sister Selina Mountjoy (Saunders).

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