Kelly Fremon Craig: 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' & The Joy Of Judy Blume
The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway
Emma Conway
4.6 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Who remembers sniggering with their friends about "Ralph"? Kelly Fremon Craig that's who! The director of the amazing adaptation of Judy Blume's 'Are You There God It's Me Margaret?' chats about her wonderful new film, the importance of Judy Blume's novels for teenagers over the past 50 years and why on earth don't we talk about periods more?
'Are You There God It's Me Margaret?' is out TODAY! (19th May) from Lionsgate. Run and go and watch in the cinema asap!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Phone Box Podcast with me, Emma Conway, thanks so much for |
| 0:10.6 | joining me as per usual, make sure you tag me in so I can see what you are up to. |
| 0:15.4 | And today we are back with a very special edition of the Phone Box Podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | It's special for two reasons. |
| 0:21.7 | One, I've got a phenomenal guest, but two this is the end of season one of the phone box podcast. I've been going now for about 11 weeks. I didn't know if I was going to come back for a season too, but hooray I am going to |
| 0:34.4 | come back in a couple of weeks and I'm really excited. I've already started to |
| 0:39.0 | record some brilliant guests and I know you are going to be thrilled to listen to them in your earholes and I just |
| 0:47.0 | wanted to say thanks so much for listening for tagging me in your stories for showing me you're listening with your baby |
| 0:54.7 | or you're listening riding a horse. I've had people running on tractors. I've had people |
| 0:59.8 | who've just finished exams go, we're listening to your podcast. It is just brilliant and also thanks to all the guests that came on who I was |
| 1:06.3 | like hello I'm Emma I've got a new podcast I haven't really done a podcast |
| 1:10.9 | before do you want to come on and they all thankfully and |
| 1:14.0 | graciously said yes so thanks to all those guests I had so much fun it did start |
| 1:20.6 | as a passion project I I had been experiencing perimenopause symptoms. |
| 1:26.8 | And actually the first podcast episode I recorded was when I found out that I was going |
| 1:31.8 | through the perimenopause. So it was like a passion out that I was going through the pareminopause. |
| 1:33.0 | So it was like a passion project. I channeled all my energy into it, didn't know where it would go. |
| 1:38.0 | And I'm just so thrilled with the way it's turned out, so I really want to thank thank you and now let's get on to our guest |
| 1:45.9 | Kelly Freeman Craig our first international guest nonetheless and she was in LA? Imagine me in Birmingham. She was in LA. She's the director of the film |
| 1:57.6 | adaptation of Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, which is a beautiful film. I watched it with my 12 year old daughter and also |
| 2:06.2 | my 10 year old son and we chat about that and I did cry. I did cry. I had a little bit of a mummy moment, we talk about that as well. |
| 2:14.1 | And also Kelly chats about her, you know, her growing up and how both of us felt that |
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