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Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas

Candice Carty-Williams on the screen adaptation of Queenie, Miriam Battye and Testament talk about their dating plays, and the rising number of female pirates in fiction.

Presenter Samira Ahmed talks to Candice Carty-Williams who has adapted her award-winning novel Queenie for an eight-part series on Channel 4, starring Dionne Brown. It traces a year in the life of a young woman navigating a difficult course through her relationships with friends, family and casual partners, with the shadow of unresolved trauma always looming in the background.

As two dramas, Strategic Love Play and Love In Gravitational Waves, explore the nature of that modern romantic encounter - the date, their respective playwrights, Miriam Battye and Testament, join Samira to discuss turning the tryst into theatre.

Authors Briony Cameron and Francesca De Tores talk about the rise of female pirates in fiction.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Claire Bartleet

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  • Tue 4 Jun 2024 19:15

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