3. Cleaning

Domestic routines are wearing Gillian down.

Her mother has a solution, but will Gillian agree to it?

Gillian lives with her 19-year-old daughter and 89-year-old mother plus her beloved boxer dog.

Life is a constant balancing act, lived in the eye of the storm.

Starring Paola Dionisotti as Gillian.

Series based on the original stories by Michele Hanson.

Written by Michele Hanson and Jenny Landreth.

Gillian ... Paola Dionisotti
Bernice ... Edna Doré
Rosemary ... Angela Down
Olga ... Frances Jeater
Kathy ... Tilly Vosburgh
Herbie ... Geoffrey Whitehead

Director: Marilyn Imrie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.