The hills are alive in episode 22, which is dedicated to big screen musicals and recorded in front of an audience at Widescreen Weekend at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford to mark the BFI’s nationwide musicals season. Anna is joined by actress, comedy performer and member of the all-female musical improv group Notflix Emma Read, and by Mia Bays, Oscar-winner producer and Director-at-Large of Birds Eye View, a pathfinder for films by women. They discuss the joys and gender politics of The Sound Of Music, Grease, Calamity Jane, Funny Girl, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and more. Anna also reviews the best female-focused films of the BFI London Film Festival 2019 and the audience join in a heated debate about revisiting classics from a modern feminist perspective.
All this – and a live improvised rap…
Mia Bays 
Emma Read