Doran, John (22 August 2012). "The Eccentronic Research Council And Maxine Peake". The Quietus. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Eliyana Evans is a Sound Designer and Composer working in theatre, music, podcasting, and film. Her recent theatre credits include Hamlet and The Exonerated at Hope Mill Theatre and 100 Trans Voices and Prince George at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester. Written by actress Maxine Peake, Beryl tells the remarkable true story of unsung champion cyclist Beryl Burton. This inspirational tour-de-force is fuelled by rhubarb, northern charm and fierce determination.

Elizabeth Twells's credits include The Importance of Being Ernest for Octagon Theatre Bolton, Death of a Salesman and My White Best Friend for Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester and Holes for Nottingham Playhouse. Love, Catherine (31 May 2018). "Happy Days review – Maxine Peake is transfixed by climate chaos". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 September 2018. Beryl: A Love Story On Two Wheels". BBC. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015 . Retrieved 20 July 2015. Miss Julie Cast List" (PDF). Royal Exchange Theatre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2014 . Retrieved 3 March 2012. Beryl Burton was an English racing cyclist and one of Britain's greatest ever athletes during the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. She dominated women's cycle racing in the UK, Best British all rounder for 25 successive years and twice world competition holder at 3000 metres. Now a docudrama has been written about her for Radio Four by the actress Maxine Peake, it is the first drama that Maxine has written and she also plays the character of Beryl. It is called "Beryl: A Love Story on two Wheels" and will be on Radio Four on Tuesday, 27th November at 2.15pm. Maxine is joined by Charlie Burton, Beryl's husband, and they talk about the life of this great cyclist and the new docudrama.Beryl offers a wonderful blend of inspiration and entertainment in both an accessible and discerning manner. Get on your bike and get to Dalston by 16th November!

Peake is in a relationship with art director Pawlo Wintoniuk. [41] In 2009, Peake left London after living there for 13 years. She said that living in Salford with Wintoniuk gave her the freedom to choose more risky roles and lower-paying jobs in theatre. When Maxine Peake was given Beryl’s autobiography as a gift she questioned why no one had ever written a play about her, and so she wrote it herself. Queens of the Coal Age review at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester". The Stage . Retrieved 28 September 2018. The first hightlight of my career was getting to work with Victoria Wood in one of my first acting jobs. I left drama school and was very fortunate to walk straight into Dinnerladies, playing a character called Twinkle. Getting to work with Victoria Wood was like a dream come true.When Maxine Peake was given Beryl’s autobiography as a gift she questioned why no one had ever written a play about her, and so she wrote it herself. Her debut stage play, Beryl began as a radio play, Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels, in which Maxine also starred. It was adapted for the stage in 2014, premiering at Leeds Playhouse coinciding with the start of the Tour de France in Yorkshire. Beryl met Charlie Burton at work, who introduced her to cycling and got her to join Morley Cycling Club, and they married, having a daughter, Denise, who also became a champion cyclist. Beryl continued to break records and win British then world championship medals, as well as fame if not fortune (she remained an amateur and worked as a labourer on a rhubarb farm between races), but was obsessive about it, despite health issues and a couple of serious accidents. She lost some public sympathy when Denise beat her in 1976 and she refused to shake hands with her own daughter.

Maxine’s play inspired many people outside of the cycling community and not just to start cycling, but as women to follow their passions. I was so frightened of joining at the start. I thought it would just be loads of skinny young men in lycra going at 100 miles an hour, flinging themselves up hills and I’m just going to have no chance and feel really self-conscious. Charlie was Burton's greatest supporter, a one-man mechanic, driver, childminder and husband rolled into one. He was ahead of his time, thinks Peake: "Initially I thought this was going to be a story about a housewife and a mother in the 1950s, finding it so hard to get out on that bike, her husband won't be supporting her and she's doing it against all odds.Aged 11, a serious illness left her with a weakened heart. Doctors warned against strenuous exercise for the rest of her life.