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Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. Image shows from L to R: Harry McEntire, Sue Townsend. Copyright: Pier Productions
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2018
  • 10 episodes (1 series)

Book At Bedtime reading of the Adrian Mole stories set in 1991. Stars Harry McEntire.

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Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. Image shows from L to R: Harry McEntire, Sue Townsend. Copyright: Pier Productions

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2018
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
10 (1 series)
Star
Harry McEntire
Writers
Sue Townsend and Sara Davies
Producer
Alexa Moore
Company

Following on from The Secret Diary and The Growing Pains, it is now 1991 and our diarist is 23.

On New Year's Day 1991, a hangover is the least of Adrian's problems. Pandora decides Adrian needs some professional help.

Adrian is infatuated with his childhood sweetheart Pandora, and is living in her box room in Oxford. Already in possession of a husband and a boyfriend, and sick of his attentions, Pandora recommends a therapist to help Adrian move on.

Unfulfilled by his job at the Department of the Environment, Adrian's aspirations to become a poet and author are undimmed. Whilst working on his first novel, Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, he is plagued by the literary success of his old nemesis Barry Kent.

As he continues to battle valiantly with the slings and arrows that life throws at him, Adrian starts to feel less of an outsider and more at ease with himself.

Additional details

Also known as
  • Book At Bedtime: Adrian Mole - The Wilderness Years
Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 5th November 2018 at 10:45pm on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats
  • Monday 12th September 2022 at 1:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 6
  • Sunday 11th September 2022 at 1:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 6
  • Monday 5th September 2022 at 2:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 5

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