Event 44

Description

Martin Clunes has been a familiar and much-loved face on television and film since the 1990’s. Alongside appearances in long running series Men Behaving Badly and Doc Martin, he has presented numerous documentaries from around the world. He was awarded an OBE in 2015 for his contribution to drama, charity and the community of Dorset.

Jo Willett has been a tv drama and comedy producer for all her working life. She has produced many of our most admired and loved programmes: she began her career on a then-new soap opera called Eastenders, before going on to executive produce series such as Pie in the Sky and Love Hurts. She won a BAFTA for A Rather English Marriage and an Emmy for Dirty Tricks. More recently, she produced the revival of the hit comedy Birds of a Feather for Retort/ITV and the popular ITV queries MANHUNT. For the past few years Jo has started a second career writing historical biographies. Her first book, The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu, was published in March 2021, and her second, Sarah Siddons, is event 9 in this year’s Bridport Literary Festival.