Sally Lindsay: Fighting for working-class women in telly

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Actor and writer Sally Lindsay has always loved the spotlight. She made her TV debut aged 7 when her school choir performed their No.1 single There’s No One Quite Like Grandma on Top of the Pops. But it wasn’t until university that she realised she could make a career out of performing.

Sally's gone on to star in hit TV shows such as Phoenix Nights, Coronation Street, Mount Pleasant and her latest project, The Madame Blanc Mysteries, which she also writes and produces.

She tells James how she landed her first TV role in The Royale Family, the struggles that working-class actors face and what she’s doing to tackle inequality in the industry.

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0:00.0	If I had to picture a moment of calmfulness, it would have to be at the beach.
0:05.0	On the edge of the sand, with the waves at my toes, what's yours?
0:10.2	Calm's Herbal Remedies.
0:12.2	Calm's days, a traditional herbal medicine used for stress, exclusively based on traditional use only, contains Valerian Root. Always read the label.
0:22.1	This is a Global Player Original Podcast.
0:34.4	Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever go on the radio with interesting people.
0:43.0	Sally Lindsay, welcome. We did spend some time on the radio recently and I took the opportunity to invite you on to full disclosure.
0:49.5	I know, I'm very honoured. Don't be deaf.
0:51.7	Yeah, I think it was the only subject to have to listen to you and being a big fan.
0:55.1	Thank you for the Brexit years, by the way.
0:57.0	It kept me saying.
0:57.8	Yeah, that went well.
0:58.6	Yeah, that went well.
1:00.2	Yeah, I remember being on set the day that the result came in.
1:03.8	It was awful.
1:05.2	Anyway, yeah, I just rang in because it was a subject. I thought I knew everything about,
1:11.2	and it's about the lack of working class voices in British media
1:14.3	and especially actors and writers.
1:17.0	And it's true.
1:18.5	And I knew you cared, but I didn't realize,
1:20.9	and we'll work our way towards this.
1:22.5	I didn't realize that as you have used some of your success
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