2 May 2025

Screenwriter Angela Franklyn: overcoming adversity

From Nine To Noon, 10:10 am on 2 May 2025
Angela Franklyn

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Angela Franklyn's stage and screen career in London was stopped in its tracks when she was diagnosed with a rare health condition.

She'd spent 25 years here and in the UK in opera, musical theatre, film and TV. So the New Zealander decided she'd have to find a less strenuous way to stay in the world of performing arts, and turned to writing. Last year she was one of a handful of disabled writers chosen for a BBC writers access scheme and is working on a crime drama pilot - set in the UK and New Zealand.

She speaks to Kathryn from London.

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