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Front Row: Kay Mellor remembered

17/05/2022

Kay Mellor remembered

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kay Mellor remembered

TV dramatist Kay Mellor remembered, and an interview with playwright Chloe Moss.

Television screenwriter Kay Mellor remembered, a minimum wage for artists discussed, and playwright Chloe Moss interviewed about her latest drama Corinna Corrina.

Television screenwriter Kay Mellor, the woman behind popular series like Band of Gold, Fat Friends and The Syndicate, is remembered by fellow dramatist Sally Wainwright, Kat Rose Martin holder of the Kay Mellor Fellowship and television critic Julia Raeside.

The idea of a minimum wage for artists is discussed by Aisa Villarosa Director of External Relations at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dr Joe Chrisp of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath  and Angela Dorgan, Chair of the National Campaign for The Arts, in Dublin 

Nick talks to Chloe Moss writer of a new play, Corinna Corinna, at the Liverpool Everyman about the only woman on board a ship bound for Singapore.

Presenter : Nick Ahad
Producer Ekene Akalawu

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