Writers’ Group: In Conversation with Katherine Jakeways and Roanne Bardsley, A Woman of Substance
Mon 29 Jun
|Online Meeting, via Zoom
Join WFTV for this month’s writers’ group for a conversation with Katherine Jakeways and Roanne Bardsley, writers and co-excutive producers of the recent series A Woman of Substance.
Time & Location
29 Jun 2026, 18:30 – 19:30 BST
Online Meeting, via Zoom
About the Event
Join WFTV for this month’s writers’ group for a conversation with Katherine Jakeways and Roanne Bardsley, writers and co-excutive producers of the recent Channel 4 series, A Woman of Substance.
Based on the best-selling novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE, A Woman of Substance is an epic drama spanning six decades, charting the rise of Emma Harte from penniless Yorkshire maid in the early 1900s to powerful 1970s business mogul.
Betrayed by her aristocratic lover and cast out when she becomes pregnant, young Emma vows a lifelong revenge on the family she once worked for and who underestimated her. Through love, loss, war, and unrelenting ambition, Emma amasses power, outwits rivals, and shapes her own destiny.
In the 1970s, as she approaches her 80th birthday, betrayal from within Emma’s own family threatens everything she’s fought a lifetime to build.
In conversation with host Christina Pickworth, Katherine and Roanne will be discussing…
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