Bonus: The Global Story
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Is #Me Too finally exploding in French cinema?. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | We lost our humanity. We lost our dignity. We got punished for something we did not do. |
| 0:07.4 | Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service tells the story of The Black 14. |
| 0:12.5 | Our young lives were flipped upside down. |
| 0:15.0 | Search for amazing sports stories wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, I'm Katia Adler. Welcome to this bonus episode in The Documentary Feed from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:26.0 | I host the BBC's Global Story Podcast, and along with some brilliant BBC colleagues, |
| 0:31.3 | we bring you smart takes and fresh perspectives on what's happening around the world. |
| 0:36.1 | In this episode, we ask whether new allegations against big stars of French cinema are |
| 0:42.1 | jumpstarting the country's Me Too movement a long time after the United States. |
| 0:47.7 | We bring you highlights of the Global Story podcast here when we can, but to hear all of our |
| 0:52.5 | episodes every weekday, Monday to Friday, |
| 0:55.4 | search for the global story wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 1:02.0 | When the Me Too movement exploded in October 2017, it was widely viewed as a moment of |
| 1:08.3 | reckoning for the film industry. But while Hollywood heralded a time |
| 1:13.1 | of change, the picture was quite different elsewhere. In France, another country with a rich |
| 1:19.5 | and proud cinematic heritage, there was a backlash against Me Too allegations, which puzzled |
| 1:25.6 | even angered many outside the country. |
| 1:28.7 | Now, though, a new wave of controversy in the world of French cinema, involving amongst |
| 1:33.4 | others the celebrated actor Gerald de Pardieu, has reignited the media debate in France, |
| 1:39.0 | and it seems to be gaining momentum. |
| 1:42.0 | So today we're asking, is the Me Too movement finally arriving in French |
| 1:47.3 | cinema? And why did it take so long? So with me today, our two French journalist, Catherine |
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