Anne Reid (The Sixth Commandment) will play Nancy, Holly and Yvonne’s mother, with Sue Johnston (The Royle Family) as Jess’s Aunt Mary. Peter Davison (Doctor Who) and Claire Skinner (Outnumbered) and Angel Coulby (Merlin) also join the cast.

Joanna Scanlan is leading the BBC Sally Wainwright drama along with Tamsin Greig, Lorraine Ashbourne, Amelia Bullmore

Tamsin Greig and Joanna Scanlan to play middle-aged punk rockers in new show - The six-part series follows five women coping with work, grown-up children, dependent parents, husbands and the menopause.

The cast of Sally Wainwright's new BBC drama series is revealed - Riot Women stars a number of Cult TV favourites in the cast.

The story is about 5 women who, along with “two riotous backing singers,” come together to create a makeshift punk-rock band in order to enter a local talent contest, but in writing their first original song, soon discover that they have a lot to say – and this is their way to say it.

Joanna Scanlan and Tamsin Greig have been confirmed to star in Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama “Riot Women.” “Riot Women” is the new drama from “Happy Valley” creator Wainwright, about a group of middle-aged women who decide to enter a talent contest by forming a punk-rock band.

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