The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (TV series) Reginald Gudgeon, the well-meaning but inept manager of the local benefits office and Patrick Barlow as Mitchell Malone, the excitable local radio disc jockey. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (TV series) The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is a British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend. It aired from 5 January to 9 February 1987 and starred Gian Sammarco, as the title character Adrian Mole, Stephen Moore as Adrian's father George Mole and Lulu as Adrian's mother Pauline Mole. There were one-off appearances from several other actors, including Tony Haygarth as
The Diary of One Who Disappeared The Diary of One Who Disappeared The Diary of One Who Disappeared () is a song cycle for tenor, alto, three female voices and piano, written by Czech composer Leoš Janáček. On May 14, 1916, the "Lidové noviny" newspaper published verses titled ""From a Pen of the Self-taught Writer"". This "diary in poems" tells the story of a village boy who falls in love with the young gipsy girl Zefka (Žofka), and decides to leave his family and village with her. The verses made a deep impression on Leoš Janáček (cooperator of "Lidové noviny" in that time), and he decided