Every year in October I watch an episode of the soap opera Eastenders (BBC 1) and one of Hollyoaks (Channel 4) as part of my teaching for an introductory course on television drama. Eastenders is produced by the BBC has the later time slot (8pm) and is very much aimed at a ‘family’ audience although … Continue reading
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Fifty Shades of Grey and Villette
I was not especially interested in reading Fifty Shades of Grey because I had a strong sense it was not really ‘aimed’ at me. In the end I was compelled to so because I felt left out of conversations with women friends my age who had read it, or at least started doing so, and … Continue reading