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Start:	Dec 4, '08 2:15p
Location:	Radio

BBC success for Tooting playwright
3:25pm Friday 21st November 2008

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By Eleanor Harding »

A playwright from Tooting proved every cloud has a silver lining after turning the global financial crisis into a BBC Radio 4 play.

Sarah Wooley, 38, wrote the black comedy, Life Savings, in response to the problems families all over the country are facing.

It tells the story of a Glaswegian businessman with a second wife who disinherits children from his first marriage after his finances take a nose dive.

Ms Wooley said: “It’s about what happens when someone does this, and it’s also about the financial crisis and how it has impacted on everybody.

“Most of the play is set in Glasgow, but the character does come down to London and something terrible happens to him there. That’s all I’m going to say!”

The 38-year-old Gatton Road resident went to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before becoming a director and later writing plays.

Her work was commissioned as part of a series of plays about current affairs and was written in just six weeks, with recording taking place this week.

To hear the play, tune in to BBC Radio 4 on Friday, December 12, at 2.15pm.



Life Savings - BBC Radio 4 on Friday, December 12, at 2.15pm.