Josie Long, 40, had what you might call an eventful lockdown. She gave birth to her second daughter, she and her partner, fellow comedian Jonny Donahoe, relocated 400 miles from their home in east London to Glasgow and, as if that wasn’t enough, she was diagnosed with ADHD.
Long grew up in Kent and started performing standup aged just 14. She won the BBC New Comedy award at 17 before heading off to Oxford University to study English. After graduating, she returned to the standup circuit and was named best newcomer at the Edinburgh festival fringe in 2006. She’s since become the first woman to be nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award three times, and is a podcaster, playwright, microbudget film-maker, co-founder of the education charity Arts Emergency and a regular on Radio 4.
