Hello there Hannah here and welcome to this week's Sunday Chops. I know we've got some stiff competition

for your attention today given the lionesses are in the World Cup final. If you're listening

to this beforehand I hope it's a distraction from all the nerves and if you're listening

to it afterwards I hope this is coming to you in a world where we've won. This week I'm

chatting to the writer Caroline Moran about her new BBC sitcom Hempocalypse. We talk about

a whole lot of stuff including hem parties, working class women on telly and why if you

need someone to play Danny Dyer only the real Danny Dyer will do I'll let you get on

with it until next time. Hi Hannah here I am joined by Caroline Moran welcome to

standard issue. Thank you I'm delighted to be here nice to talk to you Hannah. Now we're

talking on Thursday morning this is going out on Sunday but we're talking on Thursday

morning Hempocalypse launched this week. How's that failing? Are you a read the reviews

person or are you a height from the reviews person? I am a height from the reviews person

whilst also sort of being inevitably curious so my idea is people go the reviews are in

a negrate and then I don't have to know any more than that but I feel like for me reviews

are a bit mentally destabilizing so I tend to keep away from them but they're all mainly

good so far I believe so which is the best because I don't have to engage but also know

that it's good. I haven't read any either partly because I just don't think they're particularly

helpful before you do an interview but I know loads and loads and loads of people in the

arts who just don't bother or do it a year or two later and then think what was I worrying

about all the reviews were great. I think it all still does hang on who reviews it and

there are way way way too many men still reviewing. I think I think the proportion of men

reviewing women's writing is too high still. Yeah and especially in comedy I think because

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