Hello, Hannah here, and welcome to this week's Sunday Chopps. Tonight, that's Sunday the 23rd

of April, if you're listening to this on Day of Release, the BAFTA television craft awards

are dished out. And in this Chopps, I'm talking to one of the nominees in the writing for comedy

category, Nancy Harris. Nancy is a playwright and now scream writer, originally from Dublin,

now based in London, and her excellent series The Dry was made by RTE and Britbox, and is now

available to watch on ITVX. And I absolutely suggest you do, not least because this interview

may be a bit spoilery for your liking otherwise. The Dry tells the story of Shiv played by

Rushing Gallagher, who leaves London to go back to Dublin when her grandmother dies, and then

announces she's staying with her family because she's been struggling to stay sober for six months

and thinks that they can help her. Reader, whether they can or indeed want to, is explored over

the next eight episodes and it's a rather wonderful slice of television. Take that from someone

who knows more than they'd like to about having alcoholics in the family. I wish Nancy

all the best of luck in tonight's awards and one last reminder, the following interview contains

spoilers. Hello and welcome to standard issue Nancy Harris. Thank you so much for joining us.

I want to start by saying, big congratulations, just got a BAFTA nomination in the best writer for

comedy category. How does that feel? Like mind blowing, to be honest, I didn't expect it at all

because the show has had quite a low profile in a way. Here it was on Britbox and it's an Irish

made show and you know Britbox and RT in the Irish channel. And I don't know, I just didn't

expect it. I didn't know that it had had that impact. So it's really, it's just lovely. It's so

it's so wonderful and thrilled. Yeah, without wanting to do Britbox down, obviously.

You know, BBC and Channel 4 tends to dominate those categories year after year after year.

So I was delighted when I saw that you were on there, but I had to say I was a little bit surprised

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