Preferred Butterflies to The Liverbirds or Bread but she wrote some fantastic stuff over many years and brought a huge amount of enjoyment to millions. Rip.
I'm wondering where the years have gone. Grew up watching Butterflies (with a very young Nicholas Lyndhurst) and then Bread. Some great laughs in both shows.
Sad to hear, great writer - The Mistress and Solo were not bad either, but agree on Butterflies as her masterpiece. Maybe that's because it wasn't set in Liverpool like her most famous stuff, and us southerners can relate to it more?
Carla was a vegetarian and a vociferous campaigner for animal welfare. In 1989 she was appointed an OBE for her script writing, but returned it to New Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2002 in protest after Brian Cass - managing director of notorious animal testing facility Huntingdon Life Sciences - was honoured for services to medical research. The following year, Carla set up the Animal Line Trust with her friends Linda McCartney and the actress Rita Tushingham. She converted the grounds of her rambling, Elizabethan home, Broadhurst Manor, in Horsted Keynes, Sussex, into an animal sanctuary. I was privileged to meet her there some years ago. Financial circumstance meant that the sanctuary was closed in 2009 and Carla sold Broadhurst Manor, returning to her native Liverpool, where she campaigned against the city’s annual jump race event, the Grand National.
A wonderful woman, methinks, who put her money to good use and stood up for what she believed in. RIP, Carla.
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The following year, Carla set up the Animal Line Trust with her friends Linda McCartney and the actress Rita Tushingham. She converted the grounds of her rambling, Elizabethan home, Broadhurst Manor, in Horsted Keynes, Sussex, into an animal sanctuary. I was privileged to meet her there some years ago. Financial circumstance meant that the sanctuary was closed in 2009 and Carla sold Broadhurst Manor, returning to her native Liverpool, where she campaigned against the city’s annual jump race event, the Grand National.
A wonderful woman, methinks, who put her money to good use and stood up for what she believed in. RIP, Carla.