The creator of Bafta award winning programme Last Tango in Halifax has been made a freewoman of the borough of Calderdale, where the series is based. Sally Wainwright, who also set dramas ...

TV comedy drama BBC One 2012 - 2020 24 episodes (5 series) Sally Wainwright describes the real-life events in her own family that inspired her to write BAFTA award winning Last Tango In Halifax. Celia ...

Where did the idea from Last Tango come from? It’s my mum’s story; this happened to my mum. My dad (Harry Wainwright) died in 2001, and my mum (Dorothy) came to live with us in Oxfordshire ...

Sally Wainwright is a BAFTA award-winning writer responsible for modern television classics such as At Home with the Braithwaites and the recent Happy Valley, also starring Last Tango in Halifax's ...

7. Last Tango In Halifax is based on her mother After Coronation Street, Wainwright began to write on her own. Her first hit was At Home With The Braithwaites, which was seen by nine million viewers.

The trajectory of Hebden Bridge from a mill town in decline to one of the most sought-after places to live, started with ...

Sally Wainwright, creator of TV hits Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, is turning her attention to a ...

The series comes from the creator of Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax, Sally Wainwright. The BAFTA-winning screenwriter is often praised for her heroic and ballsy female characters ...

We have the Sally Wainwright project ... Aside from Happy Valley, Wainwright is of course known for her work on Last Tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack and more recently, Renegade Nell.

Last Tango In Halifax is based on the true story of writer-creator Sally Wainwright's mother's romance with a former school friend late in life.