Profile of Carla Lane on Famous Like Me

Animal liberation
Activists
Greg Avery  Â· David Barbarash Steven Best  Â· Rod Coronado Barry Horne  Â· Ronnie Lee Keith Mann Ingrid Newkirk  Â· Alex Pacheco Robin Webb
Organizations
Animal Aid Animal Liberation Front BUAV Great Ape Project Justice Department PETA  Â· SPEAK SHAC
Issues
Animal rights Â· Animal testing Covance Declaration on Great Apes Factory farming  Â· Fur farming Huntingdon Life Sciences Speciesism  Â· Vivisection
Writers
Steven Best Jeremy Bentham Stephen Clark  Â· Tom Regan Richard D. Ryder Peter Singer
Category
Animal liberation movement

Carla Lane, OBE (born August 5, 1937 in Liverpool) is an English television writer, writing or co-writing many successful sitcoms. In the 1960s she wrote short stories and radio scripts. Her first successes came in collaboration with Myra Taylor, whom she had met at a writers' workshop in Liverpool, before she embarked on a solo career. In 1989 she was awarded an OBE.

Lane is known for her animal rights activism, a theme that has appeared in her writing; for example, the character Darwin in Luv is a member of an animal rights group.

Television series

• 1969-79, 96 The Liver Birds (with Myra Taylor)
• 1971-76 Bless This House (with Myra Taylor and others)
• 1974 No Strings
• 1975 Going, Going,Gone... Free?
• 1977 Three Piece Suite
• 1978-82, 2000 Butterflies
• 1981-83 The Last Song
• 1981-82 Solo
• 1984-85 Leaving
• 1985-87 The Mistress
• 1985 I Woke Up One Morning
• 1986-91 Bread
• 1993-94 Luv
• 1995 Searching

External Links

• Carla Lane's homepage
• Biography on screenonline.org.uk

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