‘I’ll never grow up!’ Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee on comedy, class and her new show Skint - The Guardian

The writer wowed the world with her sitcom about five working-class kids. Now she’s tackling poverty in a series of monologues for the BBC. She talks about the childhood that inspired her, the breaks that got her into TV – and the barriers that keep so many o…

When Lisa McGee was a kid in Derry in the 90s, she swore she would never write about Northern Ireland, least of all about the Troubles. She wanted to write Murder She Wrote, or better still, to grow … [+12509 chars]

full article...