Ruby and Rata

Ruby (Yvonne Lawley) an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home rents a room to Rata a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata's son is into arson and shoplifting while Ruby's nephew (Simon Barnett) is a hapless yuppie wannabe. Marginalised by the deregulated economy of the '80s and living on their wits they may just find common cause despite themselves in this Graeme Tetley-penned tale.