My stepdaughter, Ruth McCance, who has died of cancer aged 53, was a writer and executive producer for film and TV, based for the last decade in Stockholm.
After graduating with a degree in film and media studies at Glasgow University, in the early 1990s Ruth worked as a secretary to Andrea Calderwood, then head of drama at BBC Scotland. Her potential was quickly spotted and she became a script editor there before moving to become a development producer at Ruby Films, head of development at Pathé productions and a creative executive at Film Four.
