This month we go behind the scenes of the show Clementine and celebrate comedy, theatre and the world of Jane Austen. Today we find out about Rosalie.

Hello Rosalie, lovely to speak to you again! For anyone who doesn’t know who you are, tell us three facts about yourself?

I grew up in Holland, I ran a One Direction fan account when I was 14 and my favourite food group is crisps.

Since we last spoke, your show Clementine has gone from strength to strength! It must be a rollercoaster ride! What have been some of the highlights? 

I think hearing Clementine on Radio 4 has to be one of the biggest highlights. It was quite a challenge figuring out how to translate such a physical stage character into something that works purely through sound, but it ended up being a really fascinating creative process. You suddenly have to build the whole world through voice, writing and sound design rather than costumes and movement. I feel incredibly proud that the character has made it that far and found a life on radio as well as on stage.

we will go more into depth about it in a few weeks time but give us a summary of what Clementine is about? 

Clementine follows a gloriously delusional Regency heroine who is on a quest to find “The One” before her 27th birthday. It’s a mash-up of period drama, modern pop culture and dating-app chaos. Underneath all the silliness it’s really about love, womanhood and whether we’ve actually moved on from those old romantic ideals. 

With the release of films such as Wuthering Heights it feels like 2026 really is the year for the period drama – what are your thoughts on this? 

I think when the world feels chaotic and confusing, people often look to the past for a sense of comfort or familiarity. Period dramas offer a kind of escapism.  So it doesn’t surprise me that we seem to return to them in cycles. Whenever things feel uncertain, there’s something reassuring about revisiting those stories and those settings. At the same time, it’s interesting because when you look closely, many of the themes in those stories, love, social pressure, identity, are exactly the same things we’re still navigating today. So I think that’s why they continue to resonate and why we keep coming back to them again and again.

It must be fun to do a comedy version of it? What sort of thing have you taken from the classics to evolve it into something humorous? 

It’s incredibly fun. Period dramas are already quite heightened. The emotions are huge, the stakes are enormous, and everything feels very serious so that actually makes them perfect for comedy. 

In February this year you also had a radio 4 special Lady Clementine is Looking for Love – tell us about it!

It was such an exciting experience. Lady Clementine is Looking for Love was a Radio 4 special where the character moved from the stage into the world of audio. Clementine is normally such a visual, physical character, with the costumes, the gestures and the whole theatrical world around her, so translating that into radio was a really interesting challenge. It meant focusing much more on the writing, the voice and the sound of the world around her to bring the story to life. But it was a brilliant process, and I felt incredibly proud to hear Clementine on Radio 4 and see the character take on a life beyond the stage. 

What are key lessons you have learnt from performing this show?

I think that I’m capable of so much more than I think! 

If people want to follow you on social media where can they go? 

@ rosalieminnitt on instagram

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