Carla Lane

TV Program Creator

1937 –

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Who is Carla Lane?

Carla Lane, OBE is an English television writer responsible for many sitcoms, including The Liver Birds, Butterflies, and Bread.

Lane is also known for her animal rights activism and, until 2009, ran an animal sanctuary, Animaline, in Horsted Keynes, Sussex. Animal rights is a theme that has appeared in her writing; for example, the character Darwin in Luv is a member of an animal rights group. Lane was awarded an OBE in 1989, but returned it in protest at the CBE awarded to the managing director of Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract animal testing laboratory.

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Born
Aug 5, 1937
Liverpool
Also known as
  • Romana Barrack
  • Carla Lane, OBE
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Employment
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
Lived in
  • Liverpool

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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