Alison Steadman in the late Mike Stott's "My Mad Grandad" on BBC Radio 4. In Manchester in 1972, shooting his television film "Hard Labour", director Mike Leigh drove over to Liverpool to see Ted Whitehead's play "The Foursome", (Steadman was in the Liverpool Everyman cast). He asked Steadman to be in his film. "During the preparation of the film, Mike and Alison, as they both say, 'got together.'" They married in 1973 and had two sons, Toby (b. February 1978) and Leo (b. August 1981). The couple separated in 1995 and divorced in 2001. Steadman's present partner is Michael Elwyn;the couple live
Richard Martin (British director) Richard Martin (British director) Richard Martin (born 3 January 1935) is a retired British television director and former actor. After starting his career as an actor, he worked regularly as a director throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, which included directing several early serials of "Doctor Who" starring William Hartnell, and series such as "Compact", "Crown Court" and "All Creatures Great and Small". He is married to actress Suzanne Neve. After having acted in the 1958 television series "Ivanhoe" and the 1960 series "Maigret", Martin was asked to join the production team working on yet to be released series "Doctor