The executive producer pulls the strings of some of the UK's most beloved shows.
simply bringing about the latest revival of interest in the Regency era, where women were wooed and men were rakes and/or romantics.
"There is a way to read Jane Austen as being a radical feminist for her times," Belinda explains."She was one of the first authors to put that sort of female point of view at the heart of a novel. She wrote characters who all were striving to have a more kind of interesting life. They were really active protagonists who were the architects of their lives.
"We've always tried to tread through her values as a writer, or what we perceive about it, because obviously you can read things through lots of different lenses," she adds."But we chose to read it through the lens of somebody who was a prototype kind of feminist who aspired for women to have more. To be educated. To have choice in marriage. To marry for love. To have independence. She chose not to marry.
"But I think that if we could move to a world where childcare was actually part of the framework of what we do… because everything comes down to that, for working women who want to have children, it's affordable and attainable childcare.
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