Jimmy McGovern is known for his gritty screenplays, including dramas about Bloody Sunday and the Hillsborough disaster and cover-up. Although no longer a practising Catholic, he tells Joanne Sweeney how his religious upbringing made him into the writer he is today.
BAFTA-winning writer Jimmy McGovern might have given television viewers a most intimate account of priests going through in their daily lives in his hit BBC One series Broken last year, but he says his own Catholic faith seems to have been lost forever.
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