Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?

BBC Radio 4

2 Series

Winner of British Comedy Guide award for Best Radio Sitcom in 2023 and 2024.

Florence Ransom (Dawn French) is a literary novelist, known for the Booker Prize winning Pennant Days. Her sister is Selina Mountjoy (Jennifer Saunders), a movie star and glamorous celebrity.

The two sisters have avoided each other for decades but, when Selina returns to Britain to promote her kiss and tell autobiography Kiss And Tell, the two are forced together once more. As Selina’s popularity outweighs Florence’s, with big bucks book deals and TV appearances, Florence vents her jealousy at her daughter Lucy and PA Mrs Ragnarrok.  But Selina turns out to be broke and threatens to reveal her sister’s guilty secret unless Florence lets Selina move in with her. Written by David Quantick.

Third series has been comissioned.