Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. A view of Britain through the eyes of Beauty Olonga, a carer and inspiration to other African girls in the UK
- Previous programmes:
- by year (6)
10:00 - 11:00
With Jane Garvey. Including cabaret star Camille O'Sullivan, and men and depression.
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- Beauty of Britain
Beauty of Britain
Last on
Beauty and the Beast
Broadcast Mon, 9 Nov 2009, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4 but not available on BBC iPlayer.
6/6. Beauty looks after the elderly Mr Easterby, who is behaving like a lovestruck teenager.
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The Writers
Beauty of Britain was written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Chris and Nicola are both writer-performers with plenty of Radio 4 credits to their name. You may recognise Christopher Douglas as the co-writer and the voice of Ed Reardon. Chris and Nicola were inspired to write this series by their own experience of live in care.
Jocelyn Jee Esien stars as Beauty Olonga
Jocelyn Jee Esien began her acting career performing Shakespeare until the comedy world suckered her in. After a stint as a stand up comic, Jocelyn came to prominence in the BBC hidden camera show 3 Non Blondes and The Fast Show. From 2006 she wrote and starred in her two series of her own comedy sketch show called Little Miss Jocelyn, This show marks the first time in the history of UK television that a black woman has been given her own solo comedy sketch show.
About Beauty of Britain
Beauty Of Britain is a new comedy from Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson with a cast led by Jocelyn Jee Esien as Beauty.
Beauty Olonga, bargain hunter and star of the Burslem Hope Gospel Choir, works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to live the dream in Britain. Her journal records her adventures among the nation's elderly - their overheated houses, their cauliflower cheese addiction and their wandering hands.
The series is about one woman's progress through a foreign country as she searches for personal fulfilment, a sense of belonging and perhaps a pair of Jimmy Choos she can walk to church in. It also presents a perspective on the elderly care process in all its chaotic, tragic-comedy but it does so from the viewpoint of an economic migrant, Beauty, whose Southern African Shona background has taught her to respect age and question the peculiar habits of the British.
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