Janey Godley

Multi-award-winning Scottish comedian, playwright, award-winning blogger, best-selling author and former Scotsman newspaper columnist Janey Godley has performed her comedy shows and one-woman play The Point of Yes around the world, including off-Broadway in New York. She has been a regular co-presenter on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends and had her own BBC Radio 4 series The C Bomb, written and presented with her daughter, the writer and comedian Ashley Storrie. Her books include her childhood memoir Handstands in the Dark and the novel Nothing Left Unsaid. Janey was born in poverty in Glasgow in 1961 where she still lives, and in 2023 she won the inaugural Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.