New musical, NANNY – written and performed by Alana Ramsey (The Crown) and Lizzie Stables (Inbetweeners), alongside composer Matthew Floyd (Frisky and Mannish, Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder!), will air on BBC Radio 4on 21st May at 2.15pm.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re on the right path, or what happened to the person you thought you’d be bynow, NANNY might feel very familiar. It’s about friendship, the kind that carries you through the decades, ambition, insecurity and the invisible emotional labour of caring for other people’s children whilst struggling with your own dreams of motherhood.
Set at a ‘stay and play’ toddler group, NANNY follows actor-nannies Amy and Lea as they juggle demanding bosses – big and small – money worries, dwindling auditions and the creeping feeling that time

might be running out. Between snack time and story time, they’re plotting their rise to fame as a comedy double act.
When Stay and Play leader, the much maligned Kim (Floyd- Jones) takes to the piano for nursery rhyme time, Amy and Lea seize the opportunity to perform in any capacity, and together they enter an imagined world where babies’ gurgles become roaring applause and everyday frustrations burst into bold, funny, heartfelt musical numbers such as “The Perfect Mum” and “Everything You Do Fails”. For a moment, they are centre stage – admired, celebrated, finally seen. But then the music fades and the lights go down, they’re right back where they started: nearly forty and changing someone else’s child’s nappy.
NANNY captures the humour and heartbreak of the job – being responsible for small humans who can dismantle your confidence before 9am while you’re still trying to believe your big dreams matter.
This is the radio version of the debut play for stage NANNY of actor/writers Alana Ramsey (The Crown, House of theDragon) and Lizzie Stables (The Inbetweeners, Miranda), with Jenny Rainsford (Fleabag). It features brilliant original songs by Matthew Floyd Jones, co-creator of Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! and one half of Frisky & Mannish.

Directed by comedian and writer Sara Pascoe and produced by David Morley for Perfectly Normal Productions, NANNY is funny, sharp and deeply relatable, a love letter to big dreams, messy friendships, and the invisible work that keeps everything going.

WRITER AND PERFORMER:

Alana Ramsey – writer/Amy – Alana trained at RADA, as well as writing and starring in Nanny for Bristol Old Vic Theatre, which has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, her theatre credits also include: Young Marx and Christmas Carol (The BridgeTheatre), Macbeth (National Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (The Vaudeville Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York London), A Bright Room Called Day (Southwark Playhouse) for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Off-West-End-Stage Award; Unearthed (UK Tour). Her television credits include: Alice and Jack (Channel 4 and PBS), House of The Dragon (HBO), The Crown (NETFLIX/HBO), Blitz (BBC one), Bulletproof and Lockerbie (SKY), Doctors (BBC one), Silk and Doc Martin (ITV). Alana’s film credits include: Between the Lights, Common People and Belle (20th Century Fox). Radio credits include: Bollocks, The Machine Stops, Starship Titanic, Body Tourists, We’re Backing Britain, Number 10, Two Minutes Hate, The Mysterious Death of Jane Austin, The Russian Gambler, Best Q, Heading to Paradise, Burn Baby Burn (all for BBC Radio) and Sheltered (Audible).

Lizzie Stables – writer/Leanne – Lizzie Stables is an actor, writer and Artistic Director of Folio, co-producers. Her television work includes The Inbetweeners (E4), Miranda (BBC), The Long Call (ITV), Kiri (Channel 4), Doctors and Holby City (BBC), as well as Planet Sketch (CITV) and Zoo Factor (CBBC). Theatre includes The Red Pill (RSC), Unearthed (UK Tour) Reel Life (ETT/Folio). Film includes The Big I Am & Ghost Ship. Lizzie works extensively in audio. For BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds her credits include Home Front, Life Lines and Steelheads. She has voiced leading roles in a range of Audible Originals including Oliver Twist, The Three Musketeers, Persuasion as well as The Darkwater Bride and Harry Potter. Her voice work also includes animation and video games, with credits such as Wuthering Waves, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Crimson Desert.

Matthew Floyd Jones – composer/Kim – Matthew Floyd Jones is best known as one half of the wildly successful musical comedy double act Frisky & Mannish, who have been headliners on the international comedy and variety circuits for over a decade. He is also the co-creator, composer, co-lyricist and musical director of Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! written with Jon Brittain and produced by Francesca Moody Productions, Kater Gordon, Wessex Grove and Fiery Angel which had a successful run at The Ambassadors Theatre in the West End in 2024. Other selected credits ascomposer/Lyricist & MD include: Elmer (Tall Stories, UK Tour); A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (Edinburgh Fringe, UK Tours, Vault Festival, Wilton’s Music Hall – Fringe First and Musical Theatre Review Award);Beauty and the Beast (CAST); Stay Another Song (Young Vic) https://thesohoagency.co.uk/creatives/matthew-floyd-jones/
Sara Pascoe – director Sara Pascoe is a critically acclaimed comedian, author, screenwriter and broadcaster whose latest stand-up show I Am a Strange Gloop is her biggest ever, touring the UK Australia and Canada from 2025 – 26, including playing the UK’s iconic London Palladium. 2025 also saw Sara’s return to hosting The Great British Sewing Bee for BBC One and starring alongside a stella line up of British comedians in Prime Video’s Last One Laughing UK, co-hosted by Jimmy Carr and Roisin Conaty. As a TV regular, Sara has appeared on the likes of Taskmaster (C4), Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), QI (BBC Two), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) and Mock the Week (BBC Two) to name a few. Sara is the co-host, alongside comedian and long-time friend Cariad Lloyd of Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club – an audio book club for people who don’t like wine, or nibbles, or being around people. As an author, Sara released her first novel Weirdo in 2023, following Sunday Times Best Selling non-fiction book Sex, Power, Money. Sara’s break out book Animal – which combined autobiography with evolutional history, was developed into the full BBC sitcom.
David Morley – Producer, Perfectly Normal Productions – Recent productions for BBC Radio 4 include
“The Talented Mr. Shakespeare”, “A Grain Of Wheat”, “Churchill’s Bust” & “The Book Club” and

past adaptations include “Starship Titanic”, “The Machine Stops”, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”.
Folio Theatre – co-producer – Folio are a Wiltshire based new writing development and production company. NANNY is their first co-production for Radio broadcast.