From Happy Valley to Gentleman Jack, any Sally Wainwright series is an event. None, though, has ever been spun off into a live gig.

‘We should definitely have a crack at a tour!’ laughs Rosalie Craig. ‘More fool anyone who asks us,’ adds Joanna Scanlan. ‘But we’d love to do it…’

Rosalie, star of The Hack and countless West End musicals, and Bafta-winner Joanna are talking to Metro about Riot Women, Sally’s new series which returns to the West Yorkshire turf of her biggest hits.

Joanna’s suicidal teacher and Rosalie’s self-destructive freeloader, who form an odd-couple friendship and song-writing partnership, are joined by Tamsin Greig’s retiring copper, Amelia Bullmore’s punctilious midwife and Lorraine Ashbourne’s generous-to-a-fault publican in forming the titular punk band in respons

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