Ep. 584 - Julie Peasgood - From Brookside, Emmerdale & Hollyoaks and winner of RTS’s TV Personality of the Year Award

About this episode

Julie Peasgood discusses her extensive career in television and travel with host Michael Fenton Stevens.

Julie Peasgood is probably best known for having been a regular in no less than three soaps: Brookside, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. She has a multi-faceted career as an accomplished actress, TV presenter and producer, award-winning author, voice-over artist and events host. Honoured by the Royal Television Society with their celebrated Television Personality of the Year Award, Julie’s acting career spans over fifty years of prestigious theatre and television, including five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, TV serials such as Taggart, Casualty, The Survivors, September Song, Spender, Russell T Davies’ Years and Years and Doctors (playing Michael Fenton Stevens wife!). Julie has also made her mark as a prolific travel and lifestyle writer: she was Contributing Editor for Cruise & Travel magazine for twelve years and has had long-running columns in Crafts Beautiful, Yours and Now magazines and Group Leisure and Travel, as well as being a regular contributor to Metro and the Mail on Sunday. A veteran of over 100 cruises - as a travel presenter, cruise reviewer and guest speaker – in 2018 Julie decided to combine her love of cruise travel with her passion for crafts, to form…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Fenton Stevens

Guest: Julie Peasgood

Topics covered

• acting
• television
• travel
• lifestyle
• crafts
• interview

Keywords

• Julie Peasgood
• television personality
• soap operas
• travel writing
• crafts
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal Television Society, Cruise & Travel, Crafts Beautiful, Yours, Now, Group Leisure and Travel, Metro, Mail on Sunday, Supercraft Cruises

Books & works: Brookside, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Taggart, Casualty, The Survivors, September Song, Spender, Years and Years, Doctors

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