Sandy Walsh – in Conversation

As a young woman, Sandy Walsh was torn between becoming an actress or a journalist. She finally plumped for the former and thought that the journalism dream would remain unfulfilled. A couple of decades later, however, Walsh found herself not only working as a successful award-winning actress but also presenting high profile programmes on the BBC World Service. From starring as the matriarch Francis Marsden in Emmerdale to playing Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons in Blood Brothers in the West End, Walsh has had many roles in theatre, television and radio. Her work as a presenter has given her the opportunity to interview a range of personalities including Barbara Castle, Benjamin Zephaniah and Terry Waite. For a time acting and journalism ran parallel to each other but Walsh soon found a way of making the two careers converge in her fourth one woman show Correspondent.

In this show, Sandy will talk to Michael Billington (the Guardian theatre critic since 1971) who tells us about his most recent book, Affair of the Heart, a selection of his theatre reviews for The Guardian since 1992. As well as tunes to get your feet tapping and your heart beating, stories to make you laugh and cry, Sandy will be finding out from Michael what advice he would give to young people who want to follow their dream and enter into an unpredictable profession in an ever changing world.