About the memoir: Bursting with hilarious anecdotes and moving personal stories, Andy Armitage’s gripping and intelligent memoir, Keep on Running, takes you on the rollercoaster ride of his journey as a theatre and TV writer, teacher and lecturer. Andy takes you behind the scenes as the writer of five plays on the London and Edinburgh Fringes, five single award-winning BBC dramas, series for ITV and Channel 4 and as chief writer on Prince Edward’s only foray into drama, Annie’s Bar, currently available on All4, as well as a year on Coronation Street and The Bill. You accompany Andy on his research journeys, interrailing round Europe, investigating football violence in Germany, interviewing passengers and crew of a cruise ship and riding a meat lorry in the hope of being attacked by French farmers. About the author: Andy has had an extensive career as a writer and a parallel career as a schoolteacher, further and adult education lecturer, university teacher trainer and Ofsted inspector. He is the author/co-author of two handbooks for vocational learners and ten education texts supporting the training of teachers, lecturers, mentors and coaches. He lives with wife Alison in a village in Kent with a hop field around the corner.
