Young Bradford Actors to Star in New Sally Wainwright Drama on BBC

Young Bradford actors to star in new Sally Wainwright drama on BBC

Lesi Losada, seven, from Baildon, and Brodie Nkome, 13, from Keighley, will star in Riot Women - a BBC One series.

Riot Women: Happy Valley creator's new drama set to premiere

Riot Women, which has been written by Sally Wainwright, was set and filmed in Hebden Bridge.

Happy Valley’s Sally Wainwright divulges emotional personal inspiration behind Riot Women - as cast of characters explained

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.Towards the end of 2022, I interviewed Sally Wainwright for Radio Times ahead of the final series of Happy Valley. As a fan of everything she’d written, I was nervous as hell. I’d listened to The Archers, which Wainwright wrote for in her mid-20s after ditching her job as a bus driver. I was an avid fan of Coronation Street in the mid- to late 90s, when she was in the writers’ room. I loved Sco…

Sally Wainwright's latest Yorkshire-based BBC One drama Riot Women sees menopausal women forming a punk band

Screenwriter Sally Wainwright was busy with creating her Bafta-winning TV series Happy Valley when she first conceived the idea to write a story about a rock band made up of menopausal women.