Most surprising of all was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen (Radio 4, Friday) a new sitcom by the comedy writer David Quantick and starring, rather wonderfully, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Their double act feels (in a good way) like it’s been around almost as long as GQT, so they bring a ripe comic chemistry to the roles of two warring literary sisters, that come across as if they really have already had a lifetime of rubbing each other up the wrong way.

Quantick’s comedy style (he’s written for everything from Spitting Image to The Thick of It and Veep) veers to the wittily absurd here, not so much honed as gloriously scattergun. It’s a style suited to Saunders’ former film star Selina, who as the devil of the piece gets all the best lines (including one salty, and unprintable, remark concerning Hugh Grant).

This week, she upset her novelist sister, when her bestselling tell-all memoir was nominated for the same literary award as Florence’s (French) follow up to her Booker-winning historical novel.

Things came to a riotous head at the Hay Festival (“I read one of her books to my first husband on his death bed. It was better than Dignitas,” sniped Selina) before concluding in delightful acrimonious fashion. Definitely one to dip into if you’re in need of light relief.