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The Diaries of Adrian Mole Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
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4 Extra Debut. The eve of the 1997 General Election and Pandora is standing as the local Labour candidate. Read by Harry McEntire.

This diary starts in April 1997.

Adrian Mole is no longer a spotty teenager, but a balding 30-year-old, recently separated from Jo Jo, the mother of his young son, William.

On the eve of the General Election, Adrian returns home to Ashby-de-la-Zouch to vote for the local Labour Party candidate - Pandora Braithwaite - his childhood sweetheart.

He is now employed as Head Chef in a restaurant in Soho where there is tinned tomato soup on the "traditional English, no choice" menu.

Adrian still has frustrated literary ambitions, but his career is about to take an unexpected turn and throw him into the limelight.

Written by Sue Townsend

Abridged in ten parts by Sara Davies

Producer: Alexa Moore

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.

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