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Jack Monroe is an unusual food writer, gaining celebrity from her unique blog about existing on the breadline. During that time, she hit rock bottom but kept fighting to eat well and give her son proper food, rather than live on processed, cheap products. Now successful and no longer on the breadline, she continues to campaign passionately for decent food and standards of living.

This drama revisits her past and her relationship with her beloved Grandma.

Starring Jaime Winstone and June Whitfield.

Jack's blog started in 2012 after a local councillor in Southend-on-Sea attacked single mothers. Jack lived in a small flat with her young son. Having been made redundant from a well-paid job, she found herself struggling to get by on benefits while applying unsuccessfully for jobs. Her blog documented the difficulties of living on welfare and, particularly, how to feed her son a nutritious and enjoyable diet on just 拢10 a week. It became a huge hit. Jack became a journalist, published food writer and social campaigner.

Omnibus of five episodes: Why isn't Grandma talking to Jack? And discover why soda bread is her favourite recipe.

Jack Monroe ...... Jaime Winstone
Grandma ...... June Whitfield
Gary ...... Sam Troughton

Dramatised by Sarah Daniels.

Guitar playing by Dan Cocker

Producer: Polly Thomas
Executive Producer: Joby Waldman

A Somethin' Else production for 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2016

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