Sally Wainwright

And I decided that being a bus driver was more compatible with wanting to be a writer because it seemed more wacky.

It would leave my brain free to think about drama and think about writing.

And did you... And it was a good experience.

And there's so many different people getting off and on the bus.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, three years at university didn't teach me very much, whereas 18 months as a bus driver kind of really, you had to grow up, you know.

Well, I took a play to the Edinburgh Festival when I was at university.

I wrote to a lot of exec producers whose names I'd seen on TV.

and agents, and nobody came to see the play.

But one agent wrote to me and said, I can't come, but will you send me a copy of the script?

And she took me on as a young writer, you know.

And she got me a job on a radio soap called The Archers, which is the longest running soap in the world.

It was started in the 1950s.

in England.

And so I wrote The Archers for a couple of years, which Tamsin Greig was in, who plays Holly in Riot Women.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that was my big, I started off writing The Archers.

Then I moved on to serps like Coronation Street and then finally got my own original drama away in 1999 with a show called At Home with the Braithwaite, which was nominated for an Emmy, which was the first time I came to New York.

Wow.

It was like that on soap operas like Coronation Street and EastEnders, that kind of thing.