Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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Lucy: We really try to just go for laughs. We never wanted to go serious or start talking about our marriage. We’ve kept it silly. When we first did publicity for it, we said it's a documentary. We can be honest now, it's a sitcom. It's written but so much is real in it.

Jon: Emma and Damion were our real neighbours, not actors, and one of my favourite scenes is when they meet the new neighbours and see the new house. You know exactly how they feel about it.I give Drinking Custard Diary Of A Confused Mum By Lucy Beaumont (With interruptions from Jon Richardson) a Five out of Five paw rating.

We are quite autobiographical, me and Jon," she smiles, speaking over Zoom. "Bizarrely, we get on better when we're in situations where most people... we're comics, and comics are a different breed. They are wired differently." Gill Adams is an actress and a playwright from Hull who has quite a short but interesting filmography. I'm not overly familiar with Beaumont as I don't necessarily enjoy most Radio 4 comedy, and this was a light-hearted read with one or two memorable anecdotes and a fair bit of filler. Following in the footsteps of other comedians' books, this touched on the matter of class along with comedic diary-style entries. This was my first ever audiobook and it was an easy one to start with! Before starting this I didn't know anything about Lucy Beaumont or Jon Richardson so I went into it totally blind.We argue about that but then we argue about everything. We even argue about lettuces,” she says. “He’s doing this environmental podcast where he’s talking about not wasting stuff. Toni is a big-hearted tornado of chaos. She’s a self-described actress with no acting jobs (she can currently be found “auditioning” to hand out cheese samples in a supermarket car park).