The Easter vacation found me returning to the career of playwright Shelagh Delaney in order to compile an entry for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. When Delaney died in 2011, obituaries predominantly focused on A Taste of Honey (1958) as though her professional life as a writer began and ended with this play. In … Continue reading
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Scott and Bailey
Originally one of the reasons for starting this blog was that Elaine and I wanted an outlet to express our enthusiasm for the TV police drama Scott and Bailey. Based on an idea by performers Suranne Jones who plays Rachel Bailey and Sally Lindsay and written by Sally Wainwright who also wrote Last Tango in … Continue reading