Rosie Jones: ‘Being disabled is not a personality’

Comedian, actor and screenwriter Rosie Jones joined Nuala McGovern in the Woman's Hour studio on Tuesday.

She told Nuala why it was so important to her to have more than one disabled actor in the cast of her first sitcom, Pushers, which she also co-wrote.

In the show, she plays Emily, a woman who has very little left to lose after the loss of her job results in her having her benefits cut too - and she soon finds herself building an illegal drugs empire. It’s out on Channel 4 on 19 June.

Listen back to the full interview on BBC Sounds – it’s the Woman’s Hour episode from 17 June.