Beauty of Britain: Citroen UXB (Episode 1, Series 2) (BBC Radio 4: Comedy)

Series 2 of the BBC Radio 4 narrative comedy featuring Beauty Oolonga's adventures as a careworker, starring Jocelyn Jee Esien 'Beauty of Britain' breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. It shows the process in all its chaotic tragi-comedy but it does so from the point of view of a migrant worker, Beauty, whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught her to respect age. Beauty sees Britain at its best, its worst and also sometimes without its clothes on running the wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' In this second series, Beauty's employer, the Featherdown Agency, sends her to provide care for those who need it - and some who don't, but all of whom have relatives with guilty consciences. Episode one, 'Citroen UXB', sees Beauty sent to look after Sarah, who lives with both her mother and daughter. They are a perfect, happy modern family, like the kind Beauty has seen in feel-good British movies - and with her own family being very demanding, it is understandable when Beauty begins to get too close Jocelyn Jee Esien heads up a starry cast that includes Jenny Agutter, Julia Mackenzie and Felicity Montagu. Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson, it is produced by Tilusha Ghelani. The signature music 'I Don't Feel No Way Tired' and all the music for the series was recorded with The West End Gospel Choir.