Anya Taylor-Joy: the latest actor to take on the role of Emma

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Emma is one of Jane Austen’s most adapted books. It returns to the big screen this Friday. The new film is directed by Autumn De Wilde and stars Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role. Why's the story still so relevant today?

After a recent discussion on ‘period power’ and the importance of getting to know your own menstrual cycle, listener Dearbhla McKeating got in touch. She doesn't have a monthly bleed and wanted to discuss the impact it has n your life. She joins Jenni alongside Consultant gynaecologist Pradnya Pisa.

The Museum of Youth Culture is currently touring their exhibition “Grown Up in Britain”, which showcases artefacts from teenager culture throughout the decades. To celebrate we’ve been hearing from you about what it was like to be a teenager from the '60s to the present day. Today we hear from Teresa, who was a punk in the 1970s.

Plus Yvette Cooper on why she's called for political parties to “draw up a new joint code of conduct against intimidation“, to make clear that “violent threats must have no place in politics in all parties”.

Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest Autumn De Wilde Guest; Anya Taylor-Joy Guest; Dearbhla McKeating Guest; Pradnya Pisa Guest; Yvette Cooper

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast for Wednesday 12th of February.
0:11.1	Good morning. You may be aware that a new film of Jane Austen's Emma opens on Friday,
0:17.2	Valentine's Day. What's the continuing appeal of the thoughtless, meddling matchmaker?
0:23.9	The second in a series of teenage history today, the 70s and Theresa, who became a punk.
0:30.0	And as menstruation has become a subject that can be spoken about in polite society,
0:35.3	what about the women who feel they're less of a woman because they don't have a period?
0:41.2	Not only this week, a conservative activist Joshua Spenser was jailed for sending offensive
0:47.3	and menacing communications to the Labour MP, former Cabinet Minister and Chair of the Home
0:52.8	Affairs Select Committee, Yvette Cooper. The Home Secretary, British Patel, has
0:57.9	apologised for what she has had to put up with and insisted there is no place for threats and
1:04.0	intimidation in society or public life. Well, Yvette Cooper has called for all political parties to
1:10.8	draw up a new joint code of conduct against intimidation. Yvette, we've heard this morning that
1:17.9	off-com will be asked to police technology firms as part of a new crackdown on online harm.
1:25.0	How helpful might that be in cases like yours? Morning Jenny. Well, I think it is a good thing
1:31.4	because we have seen it a growing wave really of increase in intimidation, violent threats,
1:38.1	both in public life but also online more broadly. And you know, there's no doubt a lot of that
1:44.0	is linked to what's happening online and people's willingness to say things about each other
1:50.8	behind screens that they wouldn't necessarily say in person. And I do think the social media
1:56.0	companies need to do more, particularly to remove dangerous and illegal content from their pages
2:02.5	from their sites which they don't do. So I think this is a step forward. We've not seen the details
2:06.5	yet but I hope that this is the right thing to do. How much online abuse have you suffered?
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