How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran (Omnibus)
Caitlin Moranβs 13th birthday does not get off to a good start. Bestselling comic memoir narrated by the writer.
Caitlin Moranβs bestseller is a mix of comic memoir and polemic, structured around dramatised comic scenes from her life.
On her life journey, we hear how Caitlin's 13th birthday in Wolverhampton weighing 13-stone doesn't start well.
But she moves on to become the youngest journalist at Melody Maker. Marriage and children follow with a career as a columnist.
This is all interspersed with her thoughts on subjects ranging from the necessity of big knickers, to the experience of giving birth and having an abortion.
Omnibus of five episodes dramatised by Claudine Toutoungi and Caitlin Moran.
Narrator ..... Caitlin Moran
Caitlin ..... Louise Brealey
Caz ..... Jeanette Percival
Mum ..... Clare Corbett
Yobs/Siblings ..... Lewis Bray, Cameron Percival, Jeanette Percival, Lucy Doyle
βThis brilliantly argued and urgently needed book β highly comic and deadly serious β is precisely what feminism has been waiting forβ (TLS)
βAnarchic, bonkers 21st century womanβs lib with laughsβ (Red)
Director: Mary Peate
First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in January 2019.
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- Sat 19 Jan 2019 13:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 20 Jan 2019 01:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 19 Jun 2022 14:20ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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