Radio Times: Review by:; Jack Seale

There’s an extra reason to tune in to this episode of Rufus Hound’s comedy interview series, where celebs come on to gamely read from their awful adolescent journals: for author and ace newspaper columnist Caitlin Moran, her life at 15 and 16 was so extraordinary that Channel 4 are planning to base a sitcom on it, which Moran herself will write.

The show, working title The Big Object, is set to focus on an overweight teen’s family life and hunt for a boyfriend. This blast from the source material includes Moran’s contemporaneous reaction to being home-schooled in Wolverhampton, to living with seven younger siblings and indeed, amid all that, publishing The Chronicles of Narmo, her first and only novel.

About this programme

2/6. Journalist and author Caitlin Moran reads entries from her teenage diary to Rufus Hound. She recounts the days when she was home-schooled in Wolverhampton, shared a small house with her seven brothers and sisters, and had a novel published at just 15 years old.