Hello and welcome to Happy Plays with me, Fern Cotton. This is the podcast that

explores the hidden depths we all have but don't always let others see. Today I'm

chatting to BAFTA winning actress, the phenomenal Saran Jones. I'm trying to

control stuff. I'm trying to control the inevitable because I have it yet

grieved for my mother and I've given myself any time. I had a really big breakdown

and I was off of medication and I took it and I didn't want to. Kicking a

screaming I took it but I was so far gone by that point and we could see that all

these things that I was trying to grasp onto to keep my life well and sorted.

They weren't working anymore. Saran has made a new TV show called I Am Victoria.

Oh my god, this bit of TV, it knocked me for six. It's spectacular and Saran is just

who she's to run at her best. It's just this incredible. This new TV show is is a

powerful meditation on the anxieties that people we might deem successful or

happy are struggling with. It looks particularly at those pressures. We can't

necessarily see from the outside. The dialogue is actually entirely improvised

which makes it even more special because the point is that the story holds it a

deep personal resonance for Saran. As you'll find out in just a moment, making

the episode was as much about her exploring her own life as well as that of

the character Victoria.

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