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‘IT’S VITAL TO HAVE WOMEN’S VOICES’

Freema Agyeman is in Dreamland. Literally and figuratively. The actor, who first found fame as Martha Jones in Doctor Who and has more recently starred in cult hit US series Sense8 and medical drama New Amsterdam, is back working in the UK. And her latest series, a sparky comedy set in Margate, reminds her of her youth.

Sure, she didn’t grow up in Margate. But she did grow up in a similar situation to the family at the heart of – in which Agyeman stars alongside Lily Allen, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Gabby Best as sisters struggling

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