Worst Fears

Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’, ‘Puffball’, ‘Big Women’ and ‘Rhode Island Blues’. She has also published her autobiography ‘Auto da Fay’. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed ‘She May Not Leave’. She lives in Dorset. Fay Weldon was brought up in New Zealand. She read Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews, and worked briefly for the Foreign Office in London. She later began to write full-time. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1990. In 2001 she was awarded a CBE. She lives in Dorset with her husband, the poet Nick Fox.

Antonia Beamish is a London actor and voice artist. She travelled extensively with Circus Archaos before becoming the Spencer Tracy Scholar at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC. Highlights of her narration career so far have been recording Angela Carter’s review of The Water Margin, The Philosophy of Sarah Bakewell and more recently the life of Zandra Rhodes. Antonia is a prolific narrator and has recorded over 250 audiobooks.