My new Channel 4 comedy drama The Change is a love story. But it’s a story of self-love, and we don’t often tell those. Not when the woman is over 50, anyway.
I wanted to write a show in which a middle-aged, working-class, married mum and wife (Linda) decides to take back some of the time she’s spent doing “invisible” work around the house. She heads off on a journey of self-discovery and adventure to the Forest of Dean – and doesn’t have sex once she gets there. Not that I’m anti-sex, although I was brought up Catholic, but it was really important to me that this wasn’t a show about a break up, but about a woman’s relationship with herself.
