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Screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan has worked across a diverse array of themes and genres for more than 25 years. She wrote the television series The Split, a domestic drama involving divorce lawyers, and created the psychological Netflix series Eric. Her other television credits include Sex Traffic, for which she won a BAFTA for Best Drama Serial in 2005, and The Hour, the television news drama which earned her an Emmy Award in 2012. Her film credits include The Iron Lady, which starred Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher; historical drama Suffragette; and Shame, co-written with the director Steve McQueen. Her recent book This Is Not a Pity Memoir recounts her husband’s recovery after serious illness, and her own treatment for cancer.\n\nAbi Morgan tells John Wilson about her childhood in a theatrical family; her father was the director Gareth Morgan, and her mother is the actor Pat England. She chooses the author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron as an important influence, and particularly the film Heartburn, which Ephron adapted from her semi-autobiographical divorce novel. Abi also recalls the work of television screenwriter Kay Mellor, whose series Band of Gold and Playing the Field also influenced her own writing. She describes how seeing an exhibition of the work of artist Cornelia Parker, including her installation Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, inspired some of Abi’s early theatre work, including her plays Splendour and The Mistress Contract.

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