Interview: "One of my missions as a playwright is to let the witches and the magic back in." An interview with Diane Samuels

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the interview: Diane Samuels was born in Liverpool in 1960 and now lives with her husband, journalist and author Simon Garfield, and their two sons in north London. She worked as a drama teacher in inner London secondary schools and then as an education officer at the Unicorn Theatre for children before becoming a full time writer in 1992. Since then she has written extensively for theatre (adults and children) and radio.