Freda Margaret Kelsall (born April 1938 in Southport, Lancashire, England)[1][2] is a British writer, theatre director and former teacher who is best known as the main writer (1975–1996; occasionally also a presenter in the last few of those years) of the schools television series How We Used To Live.
[4] In this period she appeared in epilogues for Rediffusion, the then ITV franchise holder; in October 1967, when she was "just starting a teaching career", she contributed to a series of epilogues on religious education[2][5] and also discussed a number of books in similar epilogues under the title 'Outlook and Insight',[2] for example William Mayne's Earthfasts,[6] Ivan Southall's To the Wild Sky[7] and Mollie Hunter's The Kelpie's Pearls.
[13] Her play The Index Has Gone Fishing, made by Central Television and filmed in Pershore, Worcestershire,[4] was networked by ITV on 28 June 1987.
[16] Her most recent television work credited by the British Film Institute consists of three episodes of Heartbeat in the mid-1990s.
[18] In 2010, she presented a retrospective of the How We Used to Live series at Hebden Bridge's 500th anniversary festival.