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Woman's Hour: Beyond Clueless; How Influential Are Our Teenage Film Heroines?

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22/01/2015

Beyond Clueless; How Influential Are Our Teenage Film Heroines?

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Beyond Clueless - how influential are teenage film heroines?

As the teen film documentary Beyond Clueless hits the screens, how influential are teenage film heroines? Plus Diana Nneka Atuona talks about the inspiration behind her new play.

Coming-of-age movies like Clueless and The Breakfast Club show the transition from childhood to adulthood and what it's like to fit in - or not. But what do we learn from our teenage film heroines? Which female characters have - or will - stand the test of time?

At the moment, just over a fifth of MPs are women - but what are the chances women will be better represented after the General Election? Last month we looked at the efforts of the main political parties at Westminster to get more women to stand. Today we turn to those parties hoping to make big gains on May 7th - the Green Party

Around 7,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer every year. What impact will the discovery of six new genes associated with the disease have on how it's treated .

This week marks the 750th anniversary of the first parliament of elected representatives at Westminster. The role the suffragettes played in getting women the vote is well documented. But they also owe something to the rise of the English tea room.

Plus the writer Diana Nneka Atuona on the inspiration behind her award-winning debut play
about a child soldier in Liberia's civil war


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Producer Beverley Purcell.

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