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Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl

Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl

Update: 2025-06-05
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Tom and guests review What it Feels Like for Girl, the BBC's coming-of-age drama based on the memoir of Paris Lees; Taylor Jenkins Reid's new novel, Atmosphere, set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and new film, Lollipop, about a young woman released from prison battling to regain custody of her children, written and directed by Daisy-May Hudson. We also talk to former Vice President of Washington's Kennedy Center, Marc Bamuthi Joseph about being fired by President Trump and the administration's latest interventions in the arts world.

Guests: Scott Bryan, TV critic and broadcaster; Caroline O’Donoghue, author and podcaster; Marc Bamuthi Joseph, former Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington; Zachary Small, arts reporter, New York Times

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Claire Bartleet

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Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl

Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl

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