成人快手

Pandora Sykes revisits the collusion of paparazzi, gossip culture and being a young female celebrity in the early 2000s.

In this eight-part series for 成人快手 Radio 4, Pandora traces Britney鈥檚 incredible life: from her hardscrabble childhood in rural Louisiana, to her coronation as the inaugural pop princess of the internet, navigating an insatiable celebrity gossip complex; through to a young mother on trial by the paparazzi.

Britney is a pop culture phenomenon. Pandora looks behind that mask - and beyond Britney herself - to explore how Britney became the most Googled person in the world, for almost 7 years, and what it says, both then and now, about the entertainment industry, politics, sex and how we see women in the public eye.

Britney鈥檚 public struggles saw her placed in a conservatorship, in which she lost the right to control her finances and day to day life. Thirteen years later, and she is in court, pleading for this controversial legal arrangement to end. We will look at how Britney has been transformed from girl-next-door teen sensation to pop music鈥檚 Rapunzel, trapped in a supposedly rotten system.

Pieces of Britney mixes documentary, archive and interviews to tell Britney鈥檚 remarkable story. It also features drama, written by playwright Katie Hims, to bring Britney and her extraordinary world to life.

Pieces of Britney is a sympathetic portrayal of Britney, during a time of cultural reappraisal about how we treat women - famous, or otherwise.

Episode 4 Cast:

Britney . . . . . Samantha Dakin
Jason . . . . . Adam El Hagar
Receptionist . . . . . Julianna Jennings
Registry Clerk . . . . . Elliot Cowan
Lynne . . . . . Laurel Lefkow
Other parts played by Joseph Ayre and Paul Chahidi.

Sound design by Peter Ringrose
Produced by Anne Isger and Sasha Yevtushenko.

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