Miriam Toews on 'Women Talking,' Sarah Polley and Jessie Buckley on Film Adaptation, TV for 2023, Myths about Fat People
[REBROADCAST FROM April 10, 2019] Miriam Toews joins us to discuss her novel, Women Talking. The book tells the story of women in a Mennonite community who thought that they and other girls and women were being violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins, but eventually learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community. It is now a film from director Sarah Polley.
Writer and director Sarah Polley joins us to discuss adapting the novel Women Talking for the big screen. We are also joined by actor Jessie Buckley, who stars in the film as Mariche, a woman skeptical that leaving the community is the right thing to do.
Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk joins to preview what to expect from television and the streaming world in 2023. We talk the second season of "Yellowjackets," a new show starring Natasha Lyonne, and of course, season four of "Succession." Plus, we take your calls.
The author of What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat returns with another book taking aim at pervasive myths and biases about fat people. Aubrey Gordon joins to discuss, "You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People.
