Somebody I Used to Love

Eve Ainsworth is a public speaker, creative workshop coordinator and award-winning author who draws from her extensive work with teenagers managing emotional and behavioural issues to write authentic, honest and real novels for young people and adults. Eve’s adult debut, Duckling, was published by Penguin Random House in 2022. She has had short stories published in magazines such as Writers’ Forum and Prima and articles posted online for the Guardian, Metro and BookTrust. Eve is also a champion for working class voices, has set up the Working Class Writers Network and is an experienced mentor.

Rose Riley is an actor and has worked extensively across theatre, film and TV. Notable theatre credits include Macbeth, award-nominated Othello at the Riverside Studios, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of award-winning book Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in London’s West End for the National Theatre. Rose is best known on screen for her role as Sandy Talbot in Call The Midwife for the BBC.

Anglo-Irish Kiwi actor Will Kirk was raised in London and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music. He has worked across TV, Theatre, and Radio, with credits ranging from Channel 4’s The Gathering to BBC Radio 4’s Middlemarch and Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part II. Previous narration work includes The Flat Share and How to Kill Your Family for BBC Sounds and The Fable of the Bees for Naxos