Oscar Winner Rachel Shenton Unveils New Podcast Drama ‘Gladstone Girls’ Set in 1970s England (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comK.J. Yossman Rachel Shenton, who won an Oscar for best live action short in 2018 with her tearjerker “The Silent Child,” has created “Gladstone Girls,” a new scripted podcast series in which she also stars.
Shenton, who is also known for her turn as Helen in British drama “All Creatures Great and Small,” will appear in the series alongside Anna Madeley (“All Creatures Great And Small”), Dot Atkinson (“Mum”) and Adrian Rawlins (“Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone”).
The six-part series, produced by Slick Films, tells the story of a group of female workers who work in a pottery factory and are “determined to protect ‘Curl Friday’, a factory tradition that they hold dear,” according to the logline.
The tradition sees the group turn their workplace into a hair salon every Friday night as they prepare to hit the town. But when a new floor manager arrives he threatens to dock the women’s wages if they dare show up in rollers.
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