Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image
Can a piece of fiction really change people's attitudes? In this episode of BBC Radio 4's, Mark Kermode and Ellen E Jones argue that yes, the things we watch can make us see the world differently or focus our attention on issues we've been ignoring.
“It catapulted the scandal into the public consciousness,” says Mark, “prompting over a million people to sign a petition demanding that the CBE of former Post Office executive Paula Vennells be revoked, which it was. After Cathy Come Home was broadcast in BBC One's Wednesday Play series in November 1966 and seen by 12 million people, the subject of homelessness was raised in Parliament. Loach says his aim in his work is, if not to change the world, to “leave people with a question. You can leave them feeling disquiet and constructive anger, if you’re lucky.”Nearly 60 years after Cathy Come Home, Mark says this powerful 2024 documentary by Lorna Tucker has “brought homelessness back into the spotlight”.
As Ellen reflects: “I think it's worth people remembering this isn't some niche women's issue. It's very central to our democracies.” In recent years, as Ellen points out, the issue of abortion rights has become ever more prominent in film and in TV shows like Girls, Jane the Virgin and A Handmaid's Tale.
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