The Brenda Line: Harry Mould’s ‘confident and adventurous’ debut novel

Harry Mould’s “entertaining” debut play, “The Brenda Line,” was inspired by a “curious historical detail,” Mark Fisher wrote in The Guardian.

Between 1972 and 1987, the Samaritans ran a service run by female volunteers (‘Brendas’) to respond to obscene calls from ‘phone masturbators’. The playwright’s mother saw the service first-hand when she was a volunteer for the charity in North Wales as a young woman. It was this experience that gave birth to the idea for Mould’s ‘sparkling two-hander’.