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Thank you. program from the free thinking team at the BBC. This is the BBC. It's not always easy to talk about Marnie.

It's a masterpiece, a key work by Alfred Hitchcock, a director who still defines the medium

of cinema.

But the experience of watching it is also informed by the testimony of its leading actor,

Tippy Hedron, whose stories of cruel treatment by Hitchcock have become an exemplar of how male power works in the film business.

On the very day we record this, Hedron has issued a statement, reflecting

on the continuing relevance of her experiences. And that will have to form part of our conversation,

because although Marnie is a canonical film based on the work of a much-love novelist,

the Poldark writer Winston Graham, and although it's the subject

of a large body of critical work and is soon to appear in operatic form on the stage of the

English National Opera, and although it's a Sean Connery picture, Marnie will never be just

another property from the back catalogue.

Over 50 years after the film was made, it's still bleeding.

It's still making us see red.

The novelist and writer Lisa Opinianese is here to dissect the picture,

bringing with her a knowledge of the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis laid out in books such as Freud's women, trials of

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