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 as ‘barmy’. In 1986, Birkinshaw went to India where he directed an award-winning film on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru, entitled "But I Have Promises To Keep", which had been commissioned by Rajiv Gandhi and was made for the Government of India via Doordarshan, the national television network of India. Birkinshaw has also directed the boxing movie "Punch". In the last few years, Birkinshaw's passion for telling stories has taken him to the world of sculpture, recreating some of the greatest works by the world's classical sculptors. "The Creation of Adam", based on Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel is