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Why Did Granny Die?
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The premise
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After a kickabout in the park, a curly-haired divorced father takes his young son to a cafe before returning him to his mother. When the boy asks why his grandmother died, the dad begins with a gentle explanation about ageing bodies, then calmly reveals that Granny was a heavy drinker: her mints were meant to mask the booze, her lively singing and dancing were symptoms of alcohol-related dementia, and a single morning's binge on coffee liqueur finally finished off her liver. He adds a ghoulish thought about what might have happened at a cremation, then cheerfully asks which ice-cream flavour his son wants.
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Well, that was alcoholic dementia.
And then one morning she drank very nearly an imperial gallon of Tia Maria and her poor little old liver just gave up the ghost.
If we cremated her, she'd have burnt with a blue flame like a great big Christmas pudding.
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Notes from the archive.
Broadcast in the second episode of the first series on BBC One on 2 November 2007, one week after the Divorced Dad's debut instalment.
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