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Abi Morgan - The importance of hope, the power of everyday superheroes, and the moments of magic throughout daily life. | Brought to you by ZocDoc (https://www.zocdoc.com/passionstruck).

Abi Morgan is a playwright, author, and screenwriter. Her plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour, Tiny Dynamite, Tender, Fugee, 27, Love Song, and The Mistress Contract. Her television work includes My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami – The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour, River, and The Split. Her film writing credits include Brick Lane, Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and Suffragette. She has several films currently in development and has won several awards, including Baftas and an Emmy for her film and TV work.

Abi Morgan is the author of the new book, This Is Not a Pity Memoir, where she writes about the trials and difficulties of steering a new life where her own cherished husband doesn’t remember her.

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Abi Morgan explains, "If people took one thing away from my book, it would be hope. Hope you’re not alone. Hope that there can be joy again. Hope that you can survive something truly, leftfield. Hope that you can turn the world back upside down the right way. That’s what I would hope for hope."

• 0:00 Teaser and Annoucements
• 3:02 Introducing Abi Morgan
• 4:30 Nomadic Upbringing
• 8:47 Working with Merry Streep, Ralph Fines, and Carrie Mulligan 
• 13:02 Abi Morgan's hit show The Split
• 15:30 Why Divorce isn't a failure
• 18:56 This is Not a Pity Memoir Overview
• 23:35 We all go through some kind of crisis
• 27:04 Why Abi felt like an imposter
• 30:03 Spending seven months in a coma
• 34:47 Delusional misidentification condition
• 37:09 You change your attitude towards mortality
• 40:08  Tiny superhero acts that were everywhere
• 44:57 The importance of hope
• 48:05 Analysis and wrap-up