Countdown Cath

Catherine Hytner was born the unwanted fourth daughter of a brutally handsome Yorkshire plumber and a terminally vain, arty, half Irish mother in a 1950's working-class, inner city suburb of Manchester. Her neglected childhood years were spent always finding somewhere else to be, often at a hidden cost.

The 1960's see Cathy wholeheartedly embracing the cultural revolution to the full, but not making it to London.

In the 1970's after a brief unsuccessful attempt to build security on a shaky fo...