Film screening & live podcast recording.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey, this psychological drama explores the possibilities and pitfalls of memory erasure. A prescient vision not just of the promise and danger of mind-altering technology but also of the threat posed by the companies that sell it.

Beeban Kidron: Politician and film-maker known for the Bafta-award-winning Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Beeban Kidron now campaigns against the abuse of power by big tech companies and for the rights of children online.

Film screening & live podcast recording.

A Dangerous Method (2011): David Cronenberg and Christopher Hampton’s exploration of the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, one of the first female psychoanalysts. A film about the power of new ideas and the old power relationships between men and women that run alongside them.

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer. She is the author of many books, including Fat is A Feminist Issue (1978), and she has written widely about feminism and psychoanalysis.