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The bestselling book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 戮 has been comissioned for a reboot for television.

The 80's classic was written by the late Leicester-born writer, Sue Townsend and sold more than 10 million copies in the UK alone. It was turned into a tv series and even a theatre production too.

Now, a writing team led by the One Day author, David Nicholls, is bringing Adrian Mole back to the small screen in a 10-part 麻豆社 One adaptation of the classic tale of teenage life in Britain.

Jane Mcveigh, an honorary fellow in English from the University of Leicester who is writing a literary biography on Sue Townsend, spoke to 麻豆社 Leicester's Ben Jackson.