Pop — Kitty Aldridge

When Maggie is 13 she goes to live with her grandfather, Pop, in Sutton Coldfield. Pop knows everything -- he's quiz champion of the Plough and Harrow and his ambition is to appear on "Sale of the Century." Maggie knows about the great comedians -- Max Wall, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, Eric and Ernie -- about country music, and about how her mother died.

POP sings with the poetry of the suburbs and aches with the poignancy of adolescence. Kitty Aldridge has a wonderfully distinctive voice and a deliciously sharp eye for the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.