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Quentin to star in Radio 2 blogging drama

Published Thursday 19 April 2007 at 16:55 by Matthew Hemley

Actress Caroline Quentin is to star in a six-part comedy series for BBC Radio 2 which satirises the internet craze of blogging.

Called On the Blog, the series has been made by production company Above the Title and will also feature actors Simon Greenall and Andy Taylor.

The comedy - described by the production company as “Adrian Mole for the MySpace generation” - follows 37-year-old Andrew Glasgow, played by Taylor, a blogger who uses the internet to talk about people in his life.

Quentin will play his mother and perform the other female parts that feature in the play. Greenall will play the supporting male characters.

The series has been written by newcomers Kris Dyer and Dave Marks and is produced by Dirk Maggs, the man who adapted and serialised The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for Radio 4. On the Blog will be broadcast in May.

The production company is also making Henry’s Girls, a radio play about Henry Purcell, which stars Hustle actor Robert Glenister as the composer.

The play is written by Alan Stafford and tells the story of a commission Purcell gets for his first full-length opera Dido and Aeneas, to be performed at a girls’ school in Chelsea. The drama will go out in May on Radio 2.