about Sue

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1946
born at Hitchin, Herts

education

1957-1964
Pate's Grammar School for Girls, Cheltenham
1965-1968
Newnham College, Cambridge (BA Hons English)
1968-1970
Research at Cambridge into Elizabethan lyric poetry
1972
Cert Ed, Cambridge, Department of Education

teaching experience

1970–1971
Conducted seminars in literary criticism for Newnham College
1973-1976
Taught English and Drama at St Ivo School, St Ives, Cambs
1976-1978
"A" level examiner
1982
Taught at Pentonville Prison, London

Extensive experience of private tuition for "A" level and Oxbridge entrance

Frequent visits to schools during past 10 years to talk about writing

television series

Up the Garden Path starring Imelda Staunton
3 series for ITV

radio series

comedy

The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere
2 series for the BBC (also available as BBC cassette)
Up the Garden Path starring Imelda Staunton
3 series for BBC Radio 4
The Sit-Crom
BBC Radio 4
Four Joneses and a Jenkins
BBC Radio 4
Alison and Maud
BBC Radio 4 2002-2003

documentaries

Growing Pains (documentary about aging)
BBC Radio 4
Hilaire Belloc
BBC Radio 4
Cities (6 programmes of literary anthology)
BBC Radio 4

broadcasting

Has participated in various BBC Radio 4 programmes including:

Stop the Week, A Word in Edgeways, Bookshelf, The Afternoon Shift, The Radio Programme, Woman's Hour, Cut the Mustard, Quote Unquote, A Good Read, Slightly Foxed, The Write Stuff

Sue Limb has given talks to many local groups, W.I. meetings, literary societies and festivals, schools and colleges on subjects including the serious business of comedy, dialogue, history and nostalgia in period fiction, pastiche and parody, writing for children, adapting novels for tv and radio, etc.

Sue Limb's work is perhaps best known and was most regularly seen every Saturday from 1990-2001 in The Guardian as Dulcie Domum. A radio version was read by Marty Cruikshank for BBC Radio 4 and is available as a BBC radio cassette.

interests

Natural history, horticulture and agriculture, travel, architecture, music, politics and painting.