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Warning: Some viewers may find the content of this video distressing.

Emily Atack is perhaps best known for starring as Charlotte in the Channel 4 series The Inbetweeners, and she now hosts a sketch show called The Emily Atack show.

But on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two tonight, Emily shows us a different side to her life, presenting a documentary called ‘Emily Atack: Asking For It?’, about the huge amount of unsolicited, abusive and graphic messages she receives every day.

They include rape threats, so-called ‘dick pics’ and crude images – and Emily has been campaigning for the offence of cyber flashing – online indecent exposure – to be made a law.

Emily spoke to Nuala McGovern on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour about the messages, and she described how they’ve been getting worse since she started speaking about the documentary. She also explained why she feels that blocking and deleting the messages would just be “turning a blind eye’.

You can listen to the full interview with Emily on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds - it’s the Woman’s Hour episode from 31 January.

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