Suranne jones

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She overcame bullying and bunking off to earn a place on the cobbles of Coronation

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The Big Issue Magazine

22 May, 2023

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‘i never planned to become an actor’

Brenda Fricker reflects on her first day at school as a little girl who was full of hope and optimism

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As a teenager my life was pretty tumultuous. At 16, I had fallen madly in love with a boy my parents deeply disapproved of, and it was a real tussle for freedom and control. I’d started being naughty

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‘writing was my sanity’

TV presenter Steph McGovern, 43, on motherhood and Middlesbrough

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‘riot women is a sort of love song’

For Tamsin Greig , a Sally Wainwright drama was a pipe dream. Until, she tells Amy Raphael , she joined a punk band and learned to play bass

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‘i’m a very positive person… my glass is always half full’

As she releases her new memoir, soap legend Natalie Cassidy tells Christobel Hastings why she always looks on the bright side of life