It begins with a procession of symptoms at her 50th birthday party – hot flashes, irritability, and forgetting what a cake shovel is called. So, she goes to her GP convinced that she’s got early onset dementia. The more benign and ordinary reality, however, is that she’s simply beginning the menopause. Do you feel like it will be helpful to other women to see this representation of menopause on screen?

It’s inherent in Bridget’s journey and the journey that Linda, her character, has taken. If we lose our connection with the land we were born from and on, well the consequences of that are pretty huge to say the least, and we are of course now living in the midst of them – we have lost touch with the natural balance of things, and our part in that balance. At the heart of the story, it’s asking us to return, to remember, to reconnect with beings other than human. Every other plant and animal works within the natural balance of things, whereas we’ve been moving further and further away from that innate knowledge and wisdom. Thankfully, there are still indigenous cultures with that knowledge that haven’t been wiped out. Unless we realise that and take heed of that wisdom, then I think we know that we are in for a very rough ride, I mean it already feels heart-breaking what we are doing to our ecosystems, to each other, and to our beloved animals. We’re at a tipping point right now and a lot rests on it. Also personally, I don’t think we can experience a true joy of being, without reclaiming our innate human identity as not separate from all of nature. Dusting off her old Triumph, she heads to the Forest of Dean to find a time capsule she hid in a tree as a child, in an attempt to reconnect with the person that she used to be. After a lifetime of domestic grunt work and feeling unseen by her family, among them slovenly husband Steve (Omi Djalili), the revelation prompts ride her old Triumph motorcycle down to the Forest of Dean and retrieve a time capsule from her childhood. As she explains to barfly Tony (Paul Whitehouse), "I’ve spent most of my life putting other people’s feelings before my own. I’m not going to do that for a bit, and it feels great."Dursley actor Susan Lynch set to star in Channel 4 comedy, The Change". Stroud Times. 8 December 2022. Her character’s very direct but there’s something slightly mysterious and secretive about Carmel. Her sister [Agnes] is more no-nonsense. But there's some something maybe a tiny bit scary about Carmel. Sometimes you get an awful lot of information from the costume session. Bridget was really across everything in terms of costume and props, all of that was very specific. She was very, very clear in her head about the world that she wanted to create. In the costume fitting, when they were showing me certain garments, I was like: OK that’s who she is, I see what they’re trying to do. It fell into place. Susan, you play Agnes, one of the eel sisters who run the Eel Café and are central to the Forest of Dean community that our main character Linda finds herself in. You joined the cast quite last-minute – tell us how you were brought onto the project?

Filming starts in the Forest of Dean for Bridget Christie's new Channel 4 comedy series". Gloucestershirelive.co.uk. 27 July 2022. How would you describe the sisters and their Eel Café and Eel Festival to someone who hasn't seen the show? Nessa looked around. There had to be thousands of different species planted in Harriett’s garden. “What do you plan to do with all of this?” she asked.You described your character Tony as being politically incorrect. How would you paint a picture of Tony for someone who hasn't yet seen the show?