Helen Cammock meets Suhayla El Bushra

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 9:30 a.m.

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The artist Helen Cammock meets the dramatist Suhayla El-Bushra.

Helen Cammock\\u2019s work explores social history through film, photography and performance. She won the Max Mara Prize last year and is nominated for this year\\u2019s Turner prize for her film The Long Note, which focuses on the role of women in the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland.

Suhayla El-Bushra has written extensively for TV including episodes of Hollyoaks and Ackley Bridge. Her plays include The Arabian Nights for the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, and she has also written for the National Theatre. She is currently adapting the novel The Long Song by Andrea Levy.

Producer: Clare Walker

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