Ep. 429 - Sue Cleaver

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sue Cleaver is an actor best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw in Coronation Street since 2000, as well as appearing in Dinnerladies, Casualty, A Touch of Frost, and The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. She took part in a I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2022, and is a regular panellist on Loose Women. She is currently touring the UK as Mother Superior in Sister Act. Her first book, A Work in Progress, is a call-to-arms for women as they get older to remember their value and hold on to their confidence, with Sue sharing experiences from her incredible life (many of which she has never spoken about before and will be revealed for the first time in the book) and advice (she is a trained therapist).

Sue Cleaver is guest number 429 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

Sue’s book “A Work in Progress” is available here - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/work-in-progress-9781526678706

Follow Sue Cleaver on Twitter: @Sue_Cleaver & Instagram: @officialsuecleaver .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

Artwork by matthewboxall.com .

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0:00.0	Hello, thanks for listening and welcome to my time capsule.
0:14.4	I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast, which I'm sure you know because you're actually listening to it,
0:20.5	where people
0:20.9	tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. Four things that
0:25.8	they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget and never think of again. My guest in
0:31.8	this episode is Sue Cleaver. Sue is best known for portraying Eileen Grimshaw on the ITV soap opera Coronation
0:39.5	Street, which she's played for the past 25 years. She studied at the Manchester Metropolitan School
0:45.7	of Theatre, and her first television appearance was a small part in an episode of a touch of frost.
0:51.6	She went on to star in the acclaimed drama series Band of Gold before landing
0:56.0	a role in the film Girls' Night alongside Julie Waters and Brenda Blethen. She played duty sergeant
1:02.0	Standish in the first series of The Cops and also played Glenda, a woman delivering baked goods
1:07.7	in Victoria Woods BBC comedy series Dinner Ladies. Sue's also been in
1:12.7	casualty, peak practice and the excellent This is Personal, The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper,
1:18.5	among many other shows. She's won awards as best soap actress and favourite female soap star,
1:24.8	and been nominated for lots of others. Sue completed three years of training
1:29.4	to become a psychotherapist after co-stars told her she was good at listening. I said she was good
1:35.5	at this. Oh, never mind. And in 2022, Sue was a contestant on the 22nd series of I'm a Celebrity,
1:42.6	Get Me Out of Here. Sue having done most things has now written a book, a work in progress, which is out on
1:49.0	the 26th of October 2024.
1:51.6	It will resonate with every middle-aged woman who feels newly invisible, silenced, underestimated
1:57.1	or diminished.
1:58.5	So most middle-aged women then, sadly. In it, Sue shares her experiences and
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