Best known for his trailblazing screenplays for the 1985 film My Beautiful Launderette and the 1993 BBC drama serial The Buddha of Suburbia, writer Hanif Kureishi has won numerous awards and accolades, including an Academy award nomination and the Whitbread first novel award. Born in South London to a Pakistani father and an English mother, Kuerishi frequently draws on his Pakistani heritage and themes of family in his writing. In the years since this story was dramatised, Kureishi has been appointed a professor of creative writing, and has received the rare accolade of having his papers acquired by the British Library.

Denise Bryson, who plays the part of 'wild' Nina, is now a therapist and life coach. She is a member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Mindfulness Association.