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laced with our ability to destroy
ourselves. It made me want to look at my life and the
lives of my friends, all of whom were going through
seismic changes in our belief systems and relationships.
"We had to face up to the fact that we weren't
our mothers, no matter how much we loved them, and what
would we hand onto our daughters?"
"I also wanted to celebrate the richness of this
journey we were all taking with immense humour and
strength while sometimes making the biggest dramatic
mistakes and discoveries along the way."
The serial stars Laila Rouass (Footballer's Wives,
Hollyoaks), Meera Syal (The Kumars At No 42, Goodness
Gracious Me), Ayesha Dharker (Star Wars II, Cutting It),
Ace Bhatti (The Deputy, Bend It Like Beckham), Sanjeev
Bhaskar (The Kumars At No 42, Anita And Me) and Matt Day
(The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Shackleton).
It is brought to the small screen by Hat Trick
Productions whose recent successes include The Kumars At
No 42 and Jed Mercurio's Bodies.
The executive producer for Hat Trick, Mark Redhead,
said: "Meera has given us a rich portrait of modern
Britain, which deals with friendship, love and betrayal.
Gareth Neame, Head of BBC Drama Independent
Commissioning, added: "Meera's vibrant and
exuberant tale is the latest contemporary adaptation
alongside Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club, Sarah Waters'
Fingersmith and Robert Harris' Archangel.
"It represents part of our on going commitment
to bring the best original adaptations of modern fiction
to the BBC."
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee is adapted by Meera Syal
(Anita And Me) with Abi Morgan (Sex Traffic), directed
by Andy de Emmony (Canterbury Tales) and produced by Jo
Willett (Dirty Tricks, A Rather English Marriage).
The executive producer is Mark Redhead of Hat Trick
Productions.
Music is by Norwell & Green with strings by
Chandru of Bollywood Strings.
* Includes
extracts from BBC website
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