Our Woman In Norton Tripton

There were fewer mixed feelings about Our Woman ... in which Jenny Eclair plays an ex-Fleet Street hack working in a tiny village on a community website. It's supposed to be a sitcom, but there was a lot of flailing, with neither enough situation or comedy to warrant the commission. Still, I listened all the way through.

Anyone familiar with the work of Jenny Eclair will recognise her hand in this madcap, slightly ramshackle new comedy. Eclair co-wrote the story with Julie Balloo about washed-up, middle-aged, divorced Fleet Street journalist Ros, who has ended up living in her childhood village of Norton Tripton.

The only job she can get is working for her monstrous ex's sister, who runs the local tourist website - but is patently not happy doing stories about flower displays. Eclair has great fun portraying Ros's angry desperation at how her life has detoured into a cul-de-sac as her ex-husband's career goes stratospheric, while Mark Heap brings his trademark oddball schtick to the role of her sidekick.

It's a riotous farce that reminded me of the stories of Tom Sharpe in its eccentric characters and extreme situations.