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Woman's Hour: Abi Morgan, Toddlers running errands, Suzie Miller

10/05/2022

Abi Morgan, Toddlers running errands, Suzie Miller

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Abi Morgan, Toddlers running errands, Suzie Miller

Award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan on loss, illness and her powerful new memoir.

Award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan on loss, illness and her first book, This is not a Pity Memoir, and a discussion about how much freedom we should give our toddlers.

Abi Morgan is a BAFTA and Emmy-award winning playwright and screenwriter whose credits include The Iron Lady, Suffragette, Sex Traffic, The Hour, Brick Lane and Shame. She is the creator and writer of BBC drama, The Split. She has now written her first book.   This is not a Pity Memoir about an extraordinarily tumultous period in her and her family's life.

Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer, best known for her role as Villanelle in Killing Eve, is making her West End debut. Both star and play have been performing to glowing reviews. It is an incisive investigation into the criminal justice system, how it deals with sexual assault and then fails those seeking justice through it. A one-woman show, it tells the story of a criminal defence barrister who is raped by a colleague. Suzie Miller, who wrote the play, joins Emma Barnett in the Woman’s Hour studio.

Would you let your 2 year old walk to the shops on their own? The long running Japanese TV show Old Enough!, which has become available to stream on Netflix, follows kids as young as 2 while their parents send them off on their first ever errand away from home. Unknowingly followed by undercover TV camera operators. It has sparked debate about how much freedom we give our toddlers in the UK.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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