Jan Etherington is a multi-award winning comedy writer, journalist and broadcaster. Her most recent success is the Radio 4 comedy Conversations From a Long Marriage, starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam, which won the Voice of the Listener and Viewer Award in 2021. A fifth series will air in 2024 and all four series are available on BBC Sounds. A book of the scripts for series 1 & 2 is published in hardback and a paperback edition publishes in November 2023.
Beginning her a career a music journalist, Jan went on write star interviews and personal, humorous columns for national newspapers and magazines. She still writes regularly for many publications.
With her husband, Gavin Petrie, Jan has written many long running radio and TV hit comedies, including Second Thoughts, Next of Kin and Faith in the Future, which won a British Comedy Award.
Jan has two children, four grandchildren and an English Setter, Jagger. She lives on the Suffolk coast and sea swims every day.
