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Carla Lane RIP

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,513
in Not Sports Related
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  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,303
    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.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,170
    edited May 2016
    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.

    RIP
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Grew up watching her stuff

    RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,458
    RIP a very talented person. Butterflies was a staple of my childhood.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,474
    RIP, happy to see the Butterflies appreciation here
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Rip
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP, Butterflies was a great sitcom
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,693
    RIP.
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,709
    yes Butterflies was a one off and very good too
    RIP
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,327
    Great show Butterflies.

    RIP

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  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    Big Butterflies fan
    RIP
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,079
    Just seen this. So sad. RIP Carla
  • SaySomething
    SaySomething Posts: 2,561
    RIP
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,993
    Love is like a butterfly

    RIP
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,364
    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?
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Butterflies was a great show. Liver birds is one of the first shows I remember As a kid
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 990
    RIP Carla. Great comedy writer
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    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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