Kay Mellor interview

In The Guardian, Laura Barton speaks to scriptwriter Kay Mellor.

'Everything's set in Yorkshire. It's a decision. It's what I hear when I'm writing." Kay Mellor raises her chin and ruffles her feathers. There is something of the mother hen about her and she talks in an agitated way, as if pecking persistently at something. "I'm passionately northern, I suppose," she concludes, and takes a resolute sip of bloody mary. "God!" she splutters through the late afternoon hum of the Groucho club. "That's strong!"