Alan Ayckbourn: Scarborough’s “magic place” - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

: The Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough has been central to the work of one of our greatest living playwrights. Alan Ayckbourn came to Scarborough in the 1950s and was employed as an acting stage manager - that is both on stage and backstage - before discovering that writing was his true calling.

Six decades and 85 plays later - his latest is The Girl Next Door which marries a time of Covid with the Second World War and which will return to the theatre here in September.

Sir Alan is now 82 and has been speaking to Today’s Mishal Husain about his work, the full reopening of theatres and how difficult a period ahead they will still have

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