Louise Flind

2 months ago | gramophone.co.uk | Louise Flind

When do you start designing for an opera production? An opera house invites a director to lead a production, and the director brings in their creative team – designer, costume designer, lighting, movement, and sometimes a dramaturg. I’m usually the second person through the door. Did you grow up in a creative household? Definitely a visually literate one. My dad was a modernist architect, and he was especially involved in repurposing old buildings.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Louise Flind

Jacqueline Wilson was born in 1945 in Bath, and wrote her first book, Meet the Maggots, at nine. After leaving school at 16, she began working for the Dundee-based publishing company DC Thomson on a new girls’ magazine, Jackie. Her writing career took off in 1991 with The Story of Tracy Beaker. She has written more than 100 novels, mostly for children. Wilson lives in Bath with her partner, Trish, and has an adult daughter from her previous marriage. Best childhood memory?

Mar 17, 2025 | theoldie.co.uk | Louise Flind

Do you travel light? No, I travel very, very heavy. I simply cannot make up my mind as to what I might need. I’ve got two vast suitcases, whose contents I’ve disseminated around the apartment I’m staying in, and I’ve got the miserable task in a month of cramming it all in. Having acquired lots of things, I might buy a third suitcase… What’s your favourite destination? I have dear friends in Mykonos. My husband, Sebastian, and I often stay with them. Earliest childhood holiday memories?

Mar 6, 2025 | theoldie.co.uk | Louise Flind

What are your earliest childhood holiday memories? My father (the composer William Lloyd Webber) used to rent cottages in locations chosen because of my brother’s love of ancient monuments. We’d usually end up going down ridiculous unpaved roads, getting flat tyres, with my father effing and blinding. What was it like growing up in such a musical house? Was it inevitable you’d become a musician? It seemed completely normal to me – all this racket going on in every room.

Nov 23, 2024 | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Louise Flind

Favourite person? My mother. I was never someone who said that my mother was my best friend growing up. She wasn't. She was very much my mother, but as I get older, the years between us seem to have narrowed, so we seem all almost equal. She has a very strong moral compass. We disagree about lots of things but she’s incredibly kind, and she's very good at what she does. My dad died when I was nine, and my sister was six, and Mum was only 34.