Adrian Mole: The Complete Series [DVD]

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NO SMOKING DAY. A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you are a prisoner, an MP or a member of the Royal Family you are exempt. Hamish Mancini (Craig Souza) is an American teenager whom Adrian befriends during his barge-holiday with his mother and 'Creep' Lucas. Courtney Elliot is the Mole's erudite ex-academic postman with a red-spotted bowtie and a ruffled shirt. He helped Adrian study for his GCE tests. He lends Pauline Mole a fiver when her giro fails to arrive.

Megan Harris is Brown's secretary. She and Brown are having an affair, but Megan entraps Adrian into the role of her only confidant. Megan briefly ends the affair when Brown forgets her birthday, but Brown cycles her to house in the middle of the night and Megan starts the affair again. Megan starts seeing Bill Blane on the side, and the pair are suspended on full pay when Brown catches them in the act of photocopying their private parts. Adrian later suspects her of giving his letter of resignation to Mr. Brown.In a 2013 interview, Townsend discussed her plans to wrap up the series in two further volumes, but also the fact that her continually declining health might make this plan impossible. [5] Furness, Hannah (8 July 2014). "Sue Townsend's last hurrah". The Telegraph. London . Retrieved 7 August 2014. Vincent, Alice (20 March 2013). "Adrian Mole diaries to come to end, says Sue Townsend". The Daily Telegraph. London. Gladys Fordingbridge is the elderly regular host of the group. She is the only woman. Her living room is cluttered with cat hairs and photographs of distant relatives. Her poems consist entirely of sub- Pam Ayres cat poems, one of which, entitled 'Naughty Paws', managed to rhyme ' Whiskas' with 'discus'. When her poems are eventually published it gives Adrian an excuse to expel her from the group as it is 'for amateurs only'. Gladys happily leaves the club.

Claire Neilson is Pandora's best friend. She is a beautiful yet snobbish type, who looks down on Adrian and is part of his and Pandora's political party, the Pink Brigade. Her cat is expecting kittens as of the first book. In Weapons of Mass Destruction, she appears at the school reunion as a worried-looking type who has lost her beauty and constantly worries about whether her children are in bed.A stage musical adaptation by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary opened at Leicester's Curve Theatre in March 2015. Townsend had been working on the project at the time of her death in 2014. [7] References [ edit ]

The hilarious SEVENTH BOOK in Sue Townsend's bestselling series, sees Adrian fall in love, be inconvenienced by the war and face his new nemesis: a swan from the local canal . . . Even when he gets things wrong, however, the audience is on his side. He asks the librarian for copy of “Prejudice And Pride” by Jane Austen, remarking afterwards that he could tell that she was “dead impressed”. Bullied at school, unappreciated in his home life, who could blame Adrian for retreating into his own little world of his books and his poetry? Every now and then, he receives yet another rejection letter from the BBC for his poetry. Despite his pomposity and pretensions, Adrian’s naïveté and aspirations are endearing.Adrian Mole's royal wedding diary, by Sue Townsend". The Guardian. London. 17 April 2011 . Retrieved 24 July 2013. Moving to the BBC in 2001, Cappuccino Years focuses on a 30 year-old Adrian (Stephen Mangam) and his adventures around the time of Tony Blair’s landslide New Labour victory in the general election of 1997. Adrian is an offal-chef in a Soho restaurant, Pandora (played by Helen Baxendale) is running for MP and Pauline lives in a sexless marriage to George whilst raising Adrian’s son (the mother is under house arrest in Nigeria!). Mr 'Creep' Lucas ( Paul Greenwood) is the Moles' former neighbour with whom Pauline has an affair in series 1.

George leaves the family home, and Adrian and his mum face straitened circumstances. With her Giro cheque three weeks late, Pauline takes an extreme course of action...Maud Lilian "Queenie" Baxter is Bert's second wife. When Bert and Queenie meet, they are both widowers with children; Queenie has a son called Nathan, a daughter-in-law named Maria and two grandchildren, Jodie and Jason, living in Canada. Queenie is described as "loud", and she dyes her hair to make herself look younger. The couple's unofficial engagement causes scandal at Alderman Cooper; since the death of Thomas Bell, Bert is the only male resident at the home. Queenie dies following a stroke on 7 December 1982, at her and Bert's OAP's bungalow. Many messages appeared in the following morning's newspaper. Adrian Mole ( Gian Sammarco) is the main character of the series and also serves as narrator. His character on screen is shown wearing spectacles as well as wearing ties often when not at school, points not mentioned in the book.