Get Up Mum is based on the childhood memoir of author Justin Heazlewood, charting one year in the life of a 12-year old growing up in Tasmania in the early '90s.
As a child, Justin had a hobby — obsessively capturing the voices of his family and friends on tape, including his Mum who lives with schizophrenia. This series is an intimate portrait of what it is like to be both a kid and a carer, and a time capsule of one family's life as they try to come to grip with mental illness in the best way they can.
Abridged and adapted for radio by Justine Sloane-Lees