Maureen Duffy in conversation about her life and work with Jill Gardiner.

Maureen Duffy is the author of 33 published works of fiction, including 7 collections of poetry, non-fiction, and 16 plays for stage, screen and radio. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of King’s College London, and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, as well as President of Honour of the British Copyright Council and the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society which last year distributed £30 million to 80,00 authors, and a CISAC gold medallist.

She was awarded a D.Litt by Loughborough University for contributions to literature and equality law reform, and also by the University of Kent. Her new collection of poems Environmental Studies, was published by Enitharmon in May 2013. The novel, In Times Like These, was self-published in December 2013. She represents the International Authors Forum at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (a branch of UNESCO) in Geneva.

Watch Maureen Duffy's appearance on the BBC's broadcast 'Late Night Line-Up, Man Alive', in 1967, where a panel debates a recent documentary on homosexuality.