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Episode 6 of Women and Words - Marie Jones. Dramatist and playwright Marie Jones is an actress who turned writer because as she says the words were not there for women. Marie's plays like A Night in November goes to her to Belfast sectarianism and she sees herself as a writer framed and informed by the Troubles and by the social and personal conflicts it spawned. Her international success with the play 'Stones in Their Pockets' transferred her writing world and she is now one of Ireland's leading popular playwrights.