Bridget Jones

Yeah.

Bridget Jones.

Bridget Jo- no, I think it was from-

Was Céline's version-

Yes, yes, yes

... is Bridget Jones.

Yes, yes.

So that's why m- my vintage would know it that way.

Uh, and, um, I was actually working as a secretary at around the time that I started writing my first novel.

So the whole thing was so unlikely, but with all these things, luck and timing, and I finished writing my first novel around the same time that the Bridget Jones thing had exploded.

Ah, good timing.

Yes.

There's so much news on this and, and research, but again, Alcohol has been sold to women as part of a luxury lifestyle, as a way to have a good time, as a way to reduce stress.

I mean, I remember back in the day when I was dating, Cosmo had these stories, like very Sex and the City, very Bridget Jones diary if you're my age.

But like what a woman's drink says about who she is.

It's presumably to men.

I don't know.

no idea um I started putting on one that I kept popping up for me called Vladimir which is like Rachel Wise and the main guy that hot ass dude that's with Sutton from the bold type Megan Fahey in real life Leo Woodall is his name he's on the latest Bridget Jones mad about a boy and he's a hot ass dude so

hot guys are just not great is it like

Well, I was thinking about that with your Kindle.

It's a whopping 1% of the company's total value.

Our special guest, Baroness Beban Kidron OBE, activist, champion of digital rights and protection for kids, and formerly director of dozens of movies, including Bridget Jones' The Edge of Reason, is here to talk about what ought to happen here in the UK and her new book, Users, how big tech took control and how to fight back.

And in the extra bit for Patreon backers, a Guardian writer says she stopped listening to podcasts and her mind flooded with ideas.

Who could do such a thing? All that and more on Oh God, What Now? Hello, and welcome back to the podcast.

After directing a string of acclaimed dramas, comedies and documentaries, from her debut, Carrie Greenham Home, to the brilliant TV adaptation of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

So when I was a student, when it was breakfast time, it was, what's for breakfast? There'll be no breakfast in hell.

This was a She's all the way through to Bridget Jones and beyond.

She has now become increasingly involved in the fight to protect children online.

Shaggy blonde guy and tall guy.

Which Bridget Jones movie did she star in? About a Boy? Do you want to guess what year that came out?

2023.

Oh,