Cathy Crabb is an award-winning playwright and poet who has written extensively for the stage. Her plays include Beautiful House, Moving Pictures, Something Right, Beyond the 4th Wall and The Bubbler, and her collaboration with Punam Ramchurn, Rumba Bar, premiered in 2018. She has also co-written two musicals with Lindsay Williams and Carol Donaldson, Dreamers and Meat Pie, Sausage Roll. Cathy's poetry features on sculptures by Emma Hunter at the former site of Elk Mill in Chadderton, the last mill to be built in Lancashire.

In our episode we discuss growing up in a pub, the demonisation young people in the early 2000s, the act of editing, and how Cathy writes a play in a day.

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