Episode 6 - Saturday
Another day in the chippy, but oddly no sign of Jimmy Nine Pints and his sausage supper. And the tables are turned when it's Majella's turn to save her mum.
Another day in the chippy, but oddly no sign of Jimmy Nine Pints and his sausage supper. And the tables are turned when it's Majella's turn to save her mum.
Big Girl Small Town is the story of Majella鈥檚 week - a week both raucously routine and unexpectedly life-altering. This is an abridgment of Michelle Gallen鈥檚 brutally funny, and often brutal, novel about a fictional community near the Northern Irish border a decade after the Good Friday Agreement.
Majella is the opinionated and awkward big girl; Aghybogey is the stiflingly small town. This is where she lives with her alcoholic mother and works in a chip shop frequented by a cornucopia of colourful characters, eccentrics and eejits. She loves Dallas (except for the 1985-86 season), but hates Other People 鈥� especially those who gossip about her family, speculate about her father鈥檚 disappearance during the Troubles and whisper about who might be behind her granny鈥檚 untimely death.
Read by Nicola Coughlan (pictured)
Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Ciaran Bermingham
