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"The first half has a lot of poignant things, and some bits that will make you laugh too, but it is recognisable stuff I've done," says Liz.

"The second half has lots of characters who are speaking in different voices, I am a dramatist, and from being a wee kid I remember hearing Joyce Grenfell doing characters, so I've always wanted to speak in the voice of other characters, people who give themselves away with what they say."

Liz lives in Glasgow, but over the years has been a regular visitor to Calder Valley passing on her knowledge to a new generation of writers at the Avron Centre.

"I'm thrilled to be coming back to Hebden Bridge because it is a place that every time at I'm at Lumb Bank, doing a beginning to write or schools course, I walk down the hill on my afternoon off and go to Muse Records in town. I think if local people come along they will won't find it too po-faced. and they will laugh too.

"It's a show about survival so there are bits of my life in there, and my mother's too. One of the things that goes down well is Social History, which is ostensibly about the love life of my mother during the war, so the show is bittersweet.

"I hope that when people come to the show they will shed a tear, and recognise themselves, so we start off with Old Vinyl which is about my late husband. He didn't really like poetry all that much but he liked my plays."

Tickets available from the Town Hall or the Arts Festival website and buy one ticket to bring your mum, dad, sister, daughter or a friend for free.

Doors 7pm for a 730pm start.