'We're appeasing the tech bros': Beeban Kidron, from film-maker to lawmaker
About this episode
Baroness Beeban Kidron discusses her journey from film-making to advocating for social media regulation in the UK.
What links Bridget Jones to social media regulation? The answer: Baroness Beeban Kidron. In 2004 she directed the Bridget Jones sequal. 20 years later, she became one of the most vocal campaigners for regulation of social media and tech in the UK. She joins Nick in the Political Thinking studio to tell her story, from joining Marxist dinner parties in her childhood home, to filming and living with the protesters of Greenham Common in the 1980s. Today, she has strong words for Keir Starmer's government, and is pushing for law-changes from her seat in the House of Lords. Producers: Daniel Kraemer and Flora Murray Editor: Giles Edwards
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