Paula Blair and Andrew Shail discuss The Rape of Recy Taylor (dir. Nancy Buirski, 2017, BBFC cert. 15), a documentary about an African-American woman’s lifelong fight for justice after being gang-raped by a group of white teenage boys in 1944, and Edie (dir. Simon Hunter, 2017, BBFC cert. 12A), a drama about an 83-year-old widow who wants to fulfil her dream of climbing a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. There are references to sexual and racial violence, discrimination and domestic abuse from early in the episode and throughout.

Recorded on 25 May 2018

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