Author Sees Dolly Drama Find a Home ; This Week, Local Writer Alison Carr's First Radio Play Airs On Bbc Radio 4. Barbara Hodgson Hears All About Her Dolly Parton-Inspired Venture

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FIVE years ago, when Alison Carr first had the idea of writing a play about a Dolly Parton impersonator, she pictured it for the stage.

It was in 2006 that, as part of a New Writing North project to pitch play ideas, her story outline was first drawn up under the title Parton of the Waves.

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Author Sees Dolly Drama Find a Home ; This Week, Local Writer Alison Carr's First Radio Play Airs On Bbc Radio 4. Barbara Hodgson Hears All About Her Dolly Parton-Inspired Venture

But, over the coming months as she worked on it alongside her other work, Alison - author of such quirky comedy dramas as Mam, Dad, Monkey And Me and Edinburgh Fringe success Patricia Quinn Saved My Life - found this one stubbornly refused to shape u...

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