Bridget Jones is back in cinemas with her fourth outing Mad About the Boy, 24 years after her film debut. The messy heroine is the quintessential Gen X icon: too much booze, cigarettes, dodgy office romances and an obsession with the thigh gap. So why is she still winning over new fans decades later?

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Guest: Ceci Browning, Assistant Literary Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producers: Samantha Chantarasak, Emily Webb.

Further reading:

• How Gen Z fell for Bridget Jones (by Ceci Browning, 24) 
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review — our national treasure grows up 

Clips: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy/Universal Pictures, Bridget Jones’s Diary/Universal Pictures, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight/CBC, Barbie/Warner Bros. 

Photo: Universal Pictures. 

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