Helen Blakeman

In 2008, she wrote the screenplay for the award-winning television film Dustbin Baby, which was well received by critics, and for which she won the British Academy Children's Award for Best Writer.

Helen is also the co-founder of Heroic Books LTD. Blakeman became involved in female morris dancing at age three.

[3] The play tells the story of a mother and her two daughters staying in a caravan in north Wales,[3] and Robert Butler of The Independent described the play as displaying "a lively gift for dramatising family disputes and representing young people's sex lives with a good-humoured frankness".

[6] The show attracted controversy, with Michelle Elliott, from Kidscape, describing scenes depicting 14‑year-olds engaging in sexual activity as "basically irresponsible and sick.

[7] Despite this, Blakeman was nominated at the British Academy Television Craft Awards for Best New Writer in 2003, but lost out to Rosemary Kay, for her work on This Little Life.

Blakeman had been a female morris dancer until she was 16, but the play "is as much about bickering, bonding and fierce rivalry between women".

In an article in The Times David Chater awarded the programme the TV choice of the day, describing it as "tremendous", and "the wonderful surprise of Christmas".