{"id":139793,"date":"2018-06-11T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/snatches-women-based-tv-shows-name-amused-bbc\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:50:07","slug":"snatches-women-based-tv-shows-name-amused-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/snatches-women-based-tv-shows-name-amused-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Snatches: Women-based TV show&#8217;s name &#8216;amused BBC&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vicky Featherstone\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/0DF9\/production\/_101977530_6884f804-0e45-4a75-b0b3-7257ce614996.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  PA<figcaption>Image caption                                      Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court Theatre&#039;s artistic director, said the BBC were &quot;amused&quot; by the name Snatches                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A theatre director has spoken of her disbelief that the BBC approved the name Snatches for her new TV series.<\/p>\n<p>Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court Theatre&#039;s artistic director, has curated eight monologues for BBC Four to mark 100 years of women&#039;s suffrage.<\/p>\n<p>On the word Snatches - which can be a derogatory term for a vagina - she told the Radio Times magazine: &quot;It&#039;s reclaiming the word, isn&#039;t it?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She said BBC Four &quot;were rather amused by it&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was my first idea, and I thought, &#039;There&#039;s no way they&#039;re going to let it happen,&#039;&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>But it was allowed and Featherstone says it &quot;fits very well&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our monologues are literally snatches of women&#039;s lives but a lot of those stories are about people and issues that aren&#039;t really known, so we&#039;re reclaiming the history and we&#039;re reclaiming the word,&quot; she told the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The eight short 15-minute episodes, directed by Vanessa Caswill and Rachna Suri, have been penned by writers including Abi Morgan and Tanika Gupta.<\/p>\n<p>Atonement actress Romola Garai, Downton Abbey star Siobhan Finneran and Three Girls actress Liv Hill are among the stars involved.<\/p>\n<p>One of the monologues is based on rape within marriage, while another is about an actress&#039;s experience meeting a producer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suffrage centenary: The women getting creative<\/li>\n<li>10 reasons why men opposed votes for women<\/li>\n<li>Actresses and arsonists - Women who won the vote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The series, which will air this summer as part of the broadcaster&#039;s Hear Her season, marks the centenary of women over the age of 30, and who owned property, being able to vote in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide1.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Suffragists \u2013 were first to organise, forming local societies in the 1860s<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide2.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Suffragettes \u2013 were active for just 10 years after splitting from the Suffragists in 1903<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide3.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragists \u2013 focused on middle-class women<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide4.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragettes \u2013 encouraged working-class women to protest<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide5.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragists \u2013 held public speaking events, lobbied MPs and wrote petitions<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide6.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragettes \u2013 disrupted meetings, vandalised art and buildings and were often arrested<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide7.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragists \u2013 dinner parties!<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide8.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragettes \u2013 hunger strikes!<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide9.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone organised marches!<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide10.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragists \u2013 successfully built support in parliament over many years<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide11.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suffragettes \u2013 increased publicity and re-energised the cause but also sparked a backlash<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide12.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then in World War One, women took new roles in factories and beyond...<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide13.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>...which made denying them voting rights harder than ever<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide14.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After 50 years of women standing up and speaking out...<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/slide15.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Parliament finally passed a law giving some women the vote in 1918<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/18677-suffragettes\/assets\/project-assets\/img\/initial.jpg?v=2.0.300\"\/>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  <\/p>\n<p>Click next arrow to proceed<\/p>\n<p>Loading ...<\/p>\n<p>Swipe to progress<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                            Go back to start                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               <\/p>\n<p>Featherstone said working on the series had been a wake-up call in terms of gender equality.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;m an incredibly optimistic person,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I think the shock, for all of us who worked on Snatches, is that things maybe haven&#039;t changed as much for women as we thought they had.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Snatches shows how things can shift. We just have to make sure they don&#039;t shift backwards.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Snatches: Moments From Women&#039;s Lives starts on Monday, 18 June on BBC Four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright PAImage caption Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court Theatre&#039;s artistic director, said the BBC were &quot;amused&quot; by the name Snatches A theatre director has spoken of her disbelief that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}