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Free Thinking: The wicked? stepmother

The wicked? stepmother

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Ahead of Mother's Day Matthew Sweet and guests discuss new ways of looking at stepmothers.

New Generation Thinkers Sabina Dosani and Emma Whipday join Marina Warner and Matthew Sweet for a conversation about good and bad mothering and how images are changing.

Cinderella is opening in a new ballet production at the Royal Opera House and Mothering Sunday is coming up, so Matthew Sweet is joined by New Generation Thinkers Sabina Dosani and Emma Whipday and Marina Warner for a conversation about good and bad mothering and how images are changing.  

Marina Warner's many books include From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers 

Frederick Ashton's ballet Cinderella has been re-imagined using video design for a new production running at the Royal Opera House, 27th March - 3rd May 

Producer: Eliane Glaser

You can find a collection of programmes discussing Women in the World on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084ttwp

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