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Maxine Peake is an actor and writer who first came to public attention in 1998 as Twinkle in the Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies. She went on to play Veronica in Paul Abbott\\u2019s series Shameless and later became known for playing real people, including the Hillsborough campaigner Anne Williams, and Sara Rowbotham, the former health worker who exposed the sexual abuse scandal in Rochdale in 2012.

Maxine was born in Bolton and after a rocky start at college \\u2013 she was asked to leave her performing arts course after just two weeks but stuck it out \\u2013 she won a scholarship to study at RADA. Three months before she was due to graduate she auditioned for Victoria Wood and won her first television role starring alongside Wood, Julie Walters and Anne Reid.

Victoria Wood advised her to take on a diverse range of roles in order to avoid being typecast as what Maxine calls the \\u201cfat, funny northerner\\u201d. She took the advice to heart and extended her range playing Myra Hindley, Martha Costello QC in the legal drama Silk and Hamlet in a critically acclaimed production at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester.

Maxine has also written plays including Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels about Beryl Burton, a Yorkshire woman who dominated 1960s cycling and held the record for the men\\u2019s 12-hour time trial for two years.

DISC ONE: Mersey Paradise by The Stone Roses\\nDISC TWO: Puff the Magic Dragon by Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Red \\nDISC THREE: Joe Hill by Paul Robeson\\nDISC FOUR: The Four Horsemen by Aphrodite\\u2019s Child \\nDISC FIVE: Evening of Light by Nico\\nDISC SIX: Promised Land by Joe Smooth\\nDISC SEVEN: A Whistling Woman by The Unthanks \\nDISC EIGHT: I Saw the Light by Todd Rundgren

BOOK CHOICE: One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard \\nLUXURY ITEM: A solar-powered epilator \\nCASTAWAY\'S FAVOURITE: Joe Hill by Paul Robeson

Presenter: Lauren Laverne\\nProducer: Paula McGinley