Asking if she had help writing the play and the saying that she IS getting married! So belittling and sexist way of thinking that back when the interview took place was so normal. Shelagh was a creative soul who deserved better treatment than that. And in fairness, she received it from “the bricklayers and the cleaners” the real people of this country which the play is meant for.
Shelagh's spontaneity simply evades the arid approach of the interviewer. Reminds me of how every attempt to interview Jake Thackray or Morrisey also became a fruitless attempt at herding cats! Sense it's a brilliantly Northern thing. Given a direct question a Northerner will smack it out of the ground. Given a pretentious one, they'll generally smack it straight back at you, with added pace, to see if you can actually catch what you bowled! Genius.
Seems a lovely genuine lady and wrote a fantastic story in taste of honey one my favourite films the old scenes of Manchester are great and biggest of all this lady inspired the legend that is Morrissey.
Best album ever from the smiths my absolute favourite album ever lol my 3 favourite songs from that album are panic and ask and sweet and tender hooligan
Woah the way the interviewer keeps asking questions he wouldn’t probably ask a male playwright (at least not with the same tone). ‘Did you have any help writing the play?’ as though he cannot believe that she did it all by herself! And about marriage ahem! What a charming lady though.🥺❤️
The interviewer is so aggressive 😂 and she is replying so softly 😢 from asking about criticism to directly jumping to "are you getting married" that was fast and awkward
I used to deliver her newspapers twice a day, when i was a paperboy at Harry Booths newsagents at the bottom of Bank lane.. The main tabloids in the morning, then the Manchester Evening News after after school..
What a cool gal! What a loss to the literary world. Wonderfully impervious to that snooty interviewer who seemed to have no appreciation of her creative genius.
Get over it ... I lived in Bury and was at school in Salford when this interview was being recorded. On the basis of what I heard at the time Sheila was "talking posh" here, a product of her environment and her emerging ambition. The interviewer was no more, no less, by the standards of today's sneering media class he is to the point and not really over judgmental. His reference to the Taste of Honey's "sordid" theme would have been acknowledged by many at the time, and the North-South divide of today is just a pale shadow of what we all experienced then. Even though I recognised most of the locations in the film, I'd never heard Sheila talk until seeing this today - I loved listening to her.
