Nell Leyshon

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title: "Nell Leyshon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["english-dramatists-and-playwrights", "alumni-of-the-university-of-southampton", "people-from-glastonbury", "writers-from-somerset", "living-people", "year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "fellows-of-the-royal-society-of-literature"] description: "British writer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Leyshon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British writer ::

• Black Dirt, (Picador, 2004)
• Devotion (Picador, 2008)
• The Colour of Milk, (Penguin, 2012)
• Memoirs of a Dipper (Penguin, 2015)

Radio Dramas

• The Farm (2002) (BBC Radio 4)
• Milk (2002) (BBC Radio 4)
• Glass Eels (2003) (BBC Radio 4)
• The Home Field (2003) (BBC Radio 3)
• The House in the Trees (2004) (BBC Radio 4)
• Soldier Boy (2005) (BBC Radio 4)
• Black Dirt (BBC Radio 3)
• War Bride (2008) (BBC Radio 4)
• Sons (2009) (BBC Radio 4)
• The Iron Curtain (2011) (BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour)
• The Colour of Milk (2013) (BBC Radio 4)
• Jess's Story, Children in need, BBC Radio 4
• Three Letters (BBC Radio 3)

Theatre

• The Farm
• Milk
• Comfort me with Apples Hampstead Theatre
• Don't Look Now (adapted from the story by Daphne du Maurier), Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)
• The Beauty Manifesto
• The River Keeper Streetwise Opera
• Glass Eels
• Bedlam, Shakespeare's Globe
• Winter, Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador
• The Word, RADA Elders group
• Barro, Gran Teatro Nacional Peru
• Terra, National Theatre Connections
• Three Letters, Royal Shakespeare Company

Personal life

Nell lives in Dorset with her partner Dominic. She has two sons.

References

References

1. "Advisory Board".
2. "About us".
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4. "THE COLOUR OF MILK shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger {{!}} United Agents".
5. Camacho, Isabel Cristina Cuesta. (2014-12-28). "'Del color de la leche', mejor Novela según los libreros de Madrid". El País.
6. Spencer, Charles. (2007-01-13). "Playwright who ploughs her own furrow". The Daily Telegraph.
7. (2023-09-01). "Leyshon, Nell".
8. (2013-05-09). "Radio Drama Previous Winners {{!}} Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors".
9. "Connections Plays 2019 {{!}} terra/earth by Nell Leyshon {{!}} National Theatre".
10. Spencer, Charles. (2007-01-13). "Playwright who ploughs her own furrow". The Daily Telegraph.
11. "Tattoos".
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