Conversations With Friends: Q&A with the team behind the series

Join WFTV for an insider's look into BBC Three and Element Pictures’ Conversations With Friends.

We are joined by Leanne Welham, Director, Emma Norton, Executive Producer, Element Pictures, Catherine Magee, Series Producer and Jeanie Igoe, Producer. The panel will discuss their roles in making the series and their journey from commission to production with writer and broadcaster Simran Hans.

There will also be time at the end of the discussion for Q&A.

Conversations With Friends is the highly anticipated television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel of the same name, starring Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Joe Alwyn and Jemima Kirke. The series follows Frances (Alison Oliver) and her ex-girlfriend, now best friend, Bobbi (Sasha Lane). Though they broke up three years ago, Frances and Bobbi are virtually inseparable and perform spoken word poetry together in Dublin. It’s at one of their shows that they meet Melissa (Jemima Kirke), an older writer,…