Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole musical to premiere in Leicester next year

A new musical based on Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ will receive its world premiere at Curve in Leicester, following a workshop last year.

Sue Townsend's funeral to be held later in Leicester

Hundreds of mourners are expected to turn out for the Leicester funeral of author Sue Townsend.

Adrian Mole musical 'will go ahead' despite death

A musical version of Adrian Mole will go ahead despite the death of its author Sue Townsend, it has been confirmed.

David Walliams: Sue Townsend, my hero

David Walliams on how he was inspired by the writing of Sue Townsend - and why Adrian Mole will live forever.

Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole books, dies aged 68

Novelist Sue Townsend, best known as the author of the successful Adrian Mole series, has died, a friend of her family has told the BBC.

Sue Townsend signals end to Adrian Mole saga

Author Sue Townsend has revealed she is unlikely to write more than two further instalments in the Adrian Mole series.

Terry Pratchett picked for comic fiction award

Sir Terry Pratchett and Sue Townsend are among the authors who have been shortlisted for an award celebrating the funniest writing this year.

From the awkward attempts to get a sense of time (so the Teletubbies are mentioned, as if this would send us straight back to 1997) to the clumsy attempts to tell us what's going on (when Adrian "narrates" the camera goes blurred around him, just so we get the point that the line's not been said out loud), the programme is a confused and irritating attempt to recapture past glories.

If you haven't been listening to The Queen And I (Radio 4, daily until next Tuesday), you must. Not so much for the story, an abridgement by Elizabeth Proud of Sue Townsend's latest novel, as for the reading. The tale of a republican electoral victory resulting in the Royal Family's move (or, as the social worker puts it, relocation) to a council estate is both prescient and amusing. But Miriam Margolyes's reading, produced by John Tydeman, is a bravura performance.