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Life and Art from FT Weekend

How Girls turned TV upside down

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6601 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Lena Dunham's show skewered millennial culture - but did it revolutionise TV? Plus: artist Ryan Gander on why he never does the same thing twice

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the 10th episode of Everything Else, the Culture podcast from The Financial Times.

0:11.9

I'm Grizalda Murray Brown.

0:13.5

And I'm John Sonia.

0:14.7

In the first nine episodes, we've talked about politics and culture in the age of anger.

0:19.0

We've asked whether pop music is dead, and we've

0:21.6

asked how culture can possibly stand up to a problem like Donald Trump.

0:24.6

We've also covered the important issues of Hugger, Beyonce and Middle Eastern cooking.

0:29.6

And today we're going to be talking about the culture-defining millennial TV show Girls.

0:35.6

It's just started its sixth season and we'll be discussing that later.

0:39.3

We'll also be talking to one of Britain's leading contemporary artists, Ryan Gander,

0:44.3

and we'll call the FT's Erica Solomon on the phone to hear how her lunch with the FT went

0:49.3

with the Saudi comedian for Had al-Butari.

0:56.6

So Girls is back.

0:58.6

Love it or Hate it.

0:59.5

It's become the error-defining portrayal of millennial culture, one of the most important

1:03.5

TV shows in recent years.

1:05.3

We're lucky enough to have previewed the first three episodes.

1:08.5

Yes, Girls, People Who Don't Know is an HBO show written, directed and starring

1:13.4

Lena Dunham, who's now 30, but was only sort of 24 when the show was actually conceived.

1:17.9

Crazy how young she was.

1:19.1

She was incredibly young.

1:20.6

And it's the lives of these four girls out of college in the sort of stage of internships

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