Ever since I first started sprouting at the tender age of 9, I’ve hated my boobs. They grew before anyone else’s, and they always seemed bigger than anyone else’s.
As I got older, they got a bit wayward and seemed to develop a life of their own. I used to imagine them nipping downstairs to get something from the fridge whilst I lay in bed, or escaping out of the window for a night out on the tiles. All I wanted was to be rid of them.
Then a good friend of mine who is exactly the same age developed breast cancer and had to have a double mastectomy. I decided I needed to apologise to my boobs for the years of grief I’d given them, so sat down and wrote “Ode to Boobs”.
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DIRECTOR: Susie Roberson.