Sally Wainwright

It's like, watch 95% of telly if you want depictions of nice men, you know.

But I'm not, you know, I'm doing something else.

And it's interesting when you think about that because it's so common.

I don't know, I'd say every woman I've ever spoken to has experienced that.

Well, again, I tend to write about

women who are my age I've realized yeah I don't think as you get older but all my shows across the last kind of 25 years I've realized that the man the person who is the most in the people who are the most interested me are people my age like I guess all writing is by autobiographical at some level not always consciously so did you start with an idea of they're going to have a rock band

Yes, as I say, what I wanted to do was try and find a way to write about this part of women's lives and the experiences they go through at this time without being whiny women.

I wanted to find a way of creating a show that people would think, oh, that looks interesting, that looks exciting.

And then by stealth explain to them about the midlife experience.

So it was conflating the idea of a punk rock band, a female punk rock band with...

Women who are at this age where you're doing a lot of stuff, you're juggling a lot of life's difficult things.

I'd wanted to write about a rock band since I was 13.

There was a show on telly in England when I was 13 called Rock Follies.

It was actually Rock Follies of 77.

So I was 13 in 77.

And it was about a female rock band.

And it totally changed my life.

It was like watching this show.

It was like something had happened to me.

It wasn't just like watching telly.