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CWR,6 mins

From Hillfields to the Belgrade Stage

Available for over a year

Meet Coventry kid and author Katriona O Sullivan - her best selling memoir, Poor, charts her journey from a childhood in Coventry that was marked by poverty, addiction and homelessness. An incredibly candid look at her time here and details some of the highs and lows of growing up, becoming a parent and embarking on her career. In a full circle moment she spoke to BBC CWRs Lorna Bailey as a show adapted from that memoir comes to the Belgrade Theatre.

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