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Lipman earned a BAFTA nomination for the role and her wry yet warm comic delivery is sure to elicit both laughs and sympathy in what is a refreshingly bittersweet, nuanced show. The second series is comprised of seven episodes, complete and uncut, and will retail for RRP £14.99.

In Series One, Jane must confront a situation she is accustomed to mediating from the outside: her psychiatrist husband Laurence (veteran television actor Simon Williams) announces he is leaving her to go "find himself". The two try to reconcile their differences but in series two their marriage is still on the rocks.

Throughout the seven half-hour episodes, Jane must juggle heartache, career-related stress (she both writes a column and hosts a radio show), constant demands from her widowed Jewish mother (Maria Charles – Never the Twain), and overbearing criticism from her bosses. Meanwhile, she finds comfort in her gay friends, Rob and Michael, and in the arms of charming journalist Vince (BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning actor Bill Nighy).

Agony originally aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981 yet still comes across as a highly intelligent and progressive show; no wonder then that it has been retrospectively compared to the popular 1990s American sitcom Frasier.

• Back to Reality Jane returns from her holiday to a day full of problems. She has been told to move out of her friends' flat, and her boss at the radio station – who is awaiting sentence on a drugs offence – has been replaced by a difficult 50-year-old cynic called Junior Truscombe.
• Working Girls Jane is struggling to deal with the usual flood of problem letters and numerous telephone calls, but is finding it more difficult than usual. Val tells Jane that as her horoscope for the week advises a moneymaking scheme connected with the colour blue, she intends to earn a large fee making a blue movie for Vincent Fish!
• Coming Out... and Going In Again? Jane is stuck in the middle between her two gay friends who are fighting once again. Rob moves out to live with someone who turns out not to be gay, while Michael is outed on Jane's radio programme and is subjected to constant teasing at work.
• Television Can Damage Your Health Irritated beyond endurance by Junior Truscombe's behaviour during her radio show, Jane hands in her resignation to pursue a career in television. She meets with a TV producer and is appalled when she finds out her programme is to be called 'Hen Party'...
• Problem Parents Jane is asked to help Junior Truscombe with an emotional problem – he is in love with her mother, Bea! In addition to this, she also tries to advise Rob on telling his parents that he is gay and living with his boyfriend.
• Second Time Around The former disc jockey at Happening radio, Andy Evol, has been in South America since he finished his jail sentence for a drugs offence. When he returns to see Jane in her office, she does not recognise him; he explains that in America he became a devout convert to Christianity and has changed his name to Andrew Love!
• A Woman Alone Jane finds that she is pregnant as a result of her brief affair with Vincent Fish before being reconciled with her husband Laurence. She is not sure which of them is the father... Indira moves out of Laurence's flat and Laurence wants Jane to move back in with him, but Jane needs time to think it over.