Fay Weldon Fay Weldon Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist, feminist and playwright. Weldon was born Franklin Birkinshaw in Birmingham, England, to a literary family, with both her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson (1863–1938), and her mother Margaret writing novels (the latter under the nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, from the name of a character in Aldous Huxley's short story "Farcical History of Richard Greenow"). Weldon spent her early years in Christchurch, New Zealand, where her father worked as a doctor. After her parents divorced, when she was six, she and her sister Jane spent the
Alan Birkinshaw expensive TV series ever made. One of his early films was "Killer's Moon". "Killer's Moon" was described in the acclaimed "Shepperton Babylon" as the most tasteless movie in the history of the British Cinema. In spite of comments like this, "Killer's Moon" won a prize for best Screenplay at the Sitges Horror Film Festival, and has since become a cult film. In the mid 1970s, Birkinshaw’s production of "Alice in Wonderland" ran into difficulties when the RSPCA banned him from using live flamingos in the croquet scene. In an interview with ITN, the director of the London Zoo described Birkinshaw