Ronan Bennett: ‘Top Boy was special to me... I poured it all into the scripts’

The screenwriter finished series two of his east London drama as his wife, Georgina, was dying. Then Channel 4 cancelled it. Now, thanks to Drake and Netflix, it’s back• Read an interview with Top Boy star Little SimzWhen you’re writing, everything goes into the mix.At one o’clock in the morning, in the Homerton hospital in Hackney, east London, our daughter, Molly, was born. It was a sweltering night, the hottest of the year, the late August bank holiday in 2001. A couple