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That my first play, Red Velvet, took so many years to be done. It took me seven years to write and then five years to get to the stage.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2022 source ↗
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When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
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That after I collected countless signatures on a petition, the Queen's Guard still wear bearskin hats.
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