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Kay Mellor

Kirsty Young interviews writer and producer Kay Mellor.

Kay Mellor, OBE, is an English screenwriter and director best known for TV drama series including Band of Gold, Playing the Field, Fat Friends and The Syndicate. She has won a Bafta award, along with numerous nominations, and she received a Royal Television Society Fellowship in 2016. She has also worked as an actress, and has written for the stage.

Kay was born in Leeds and has lived there all her life. It's also the home of her production company. Her highly successful career now seems worlds away from her early life, when she became pregnant and got married at the age of 16, curtailing her dreams of going to drama school. Later, whilst enjoying motherhood, she decided to return to education, studying for a degree in drama at Bretton Hall College.

Upon graduation, she worked in theatre, then at Granada TV as a scriptwriter on Coronation Street before embarking on her own prolific writing career for TV and theatre.

She celebrates her Golden Wedding anniversary later this year.

Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor.

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35 minutes

Last on

Fri 3 Nov 2017 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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    • Parlophone.
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    Let's Spend The Night Together

    • Between the Buttons.
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      What a Wonderful World

      • What a Wonderful World.
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    My Sweet Lord

    • All Things Must Pass.
    • EMI.
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    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    • The No. 1’s.
    • Universal-Island Records.
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  • John Legend

    Ordinary People

    • Get Lifted.
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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontΓ«

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    Coloured pens and paper

Credits

Presenter Kirsty Young
Interviewed Guest Kay Mellor
Producer Sarah Taylor

Broadcasts

  • Sun 29 Oct 2017 11:15
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 3 Nov 2017 09:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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