Nicola Chang (Sound designer/Composer), Chi-San Howard (Movement Director) and Cindy Lin (Designer) are a part of the creative teams for all three productions. One day the façade finally fell, it all got too much and at a health visitor appointment I fully broke down. The health visitor was supportive as was my GP, but in the end I said I just think I need to go to A&E. From here my local mental health crisis team took over, they came out every day, twice a day, and they were amazing. Knowing that someone else was coming was so reassuring. Family members and friends were also hugely supportive, they sat with me, effectively on suicide watch. Fleabag is a big inspiration, Knowles says, remembering how she cried after running into Waller-Bridge on a London tube train. “I felt represented for the first time because my life is equally embarrassing, if not more embarrassing,” she laughs. Pilot (formerly know as the TV Drama Writers' Programme) is a unique initiative that gives promising screenwriters the opportunity to write the first episode of a potential original series or serial for the BBC. When Sarah tells Stephen that she and Michael had their meeting in the factory as first intended, he's horrified when it dawns on him that CCTV footage will exist of him killing Teddy. Wanting to wipe the footage of her meeting, Sarah talks Stephen through the process of deleting CCTV footage.

Sarah’s voice is extremely funny, honest and caustic,” he says. “She’s sort of like the best mother in the world and the worst mother in the world. She will leave her kids on the side of the motorway to make their own way home but also fully support them through their quite extreme difficulties.” She added: “The working class, as a group, there’s an idea or a feeling that they’re being lectured to and being told what they should and shouldn’t do. I wanted to interrogate what value that life has and to purge that pain, I was feeling about what was happening to my grandmother because it is still unbelievably painful.”She studied Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama and then undertook a Masters in playwrighting at Birmingham University. APP: Many in our network have praised Cradled for being such a moving and powerful portrayal of postpartum psychosis. How did it come about? As I got older, I became scared of having children because I thought I might hurt them. Of course, I felt there was no way I could tell my husband this, I was deeply ashamed and fearful of what he might think of me. However, when she lands at a new school young climate change activist Avril is keen to recruit her to the cause, but… what do you do when you can’t afford solar panels on your house and can’t skip school to attend a protest? She began her career in the 1980s as an actress with the theatre company Monstrous Regiment. As a feminist she's fascinated by the control issues around food and body image. "In the Victorian age women were policed over their sexuality; by the 1960s sex was OK, so they had to find something else to police you about."

Currently, Daze is an Artist in Residence at Phytology, the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. She also works as an Artistic Environmental consultant at the Gate Theatre and serves as a Speaker and Climate Justice Consultant, collaborating with global corporations and governments. Her work is founded in a deep love, duty, and care for all life. Daze remains passionately committed to organizing with grassroots campaigns and organizations for climate justice. Simon Merrells as Gundleus, king of the Dumnonia's rival kingdom Siluria and one of Mordred's three protectors. Imposing and savage, Gundleus is prepared to slaughter whoever he needs to secure power. [5] Written by award-winning Nessah Muthy and directed by Stef O’Driscoll How To Save The Planet When You’re A Young Carer and Broke peeks into the life of a young working-class carer having to make decisions between life-saving responsibilities at home and being dedicated to save the planet in times of climate emergency. Following her birth, the thoughts weren’t as intense as I thought they might be, however, they were definitely there. I remember having moments when I was sliding down the door, as Maia does, feeling overwhelmed by it. There was never a major kind of crisis point, I just tried to push through and push through, but, amongst the joy, there was a lot of intense anxiety and worry. With my second child, however, the birth was very traumatic and that really triggered my OCD. Ellora Torchia (Maia), Damien Molony (Lenny)

So where does the 38-year-old want to be in five years’ time? “I’d like to have one or two series under my belt, but I’d take more of the same,” he laughs. “Being paid to do this is good.” In 2023 she was listed in Deadline as A Rising Writer To Watch Out For and in Broadcast Magazine a Broadcast Hot Shot. APP: It was so lovely seeing the ending where Maia and her partner, Lenny, were clearly in a supportive environment with their baby and a health professional, playing with toys. It reminded us of a Mother and Baby Unit. How did you come up with this ending? Inside Nanny Lacey’s flat are her collection of miniatures. These homemade creations capture the adventures she’s shared with her daughter Bella over the years. Like 3D photographs, they’re treasured moments of time and each one tells a different story.