Carla Lane, the award-winning writer of television comedy dramas including the Liver Birds and Bread, has died at the age of 87. She loved us as we loved her.”“I was a woman, I was Liverpudlian, and I could write,” Lane told the Observer in 2008. Lane went on to write several other series for the BBC, including Butterflies, starring Wendy Craig, Solo with Felicity Kendal, and Bread, which was closely associated with her signature bittersweet style. Jean Boht, who played the part of Bread’s matriarch, Nellie Boswell, described Lane as a genius. Remembering the making of the show and Lane’s role in its creation, she told the BBC: “She looked 16 all the time, and we loved her.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2016 19:07 UTC