Britney Spears: pop icon. Pandora Sykes pieces together what we know about her story, and what it tells us about sex, entertainment, and how we treat women in the public eye. In this eight-part series for BBC Radio 4, Pandora traces Britney's 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 seven 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's 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 a mute symbol of a supposedly rotten system...
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 hours 18 minutes
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7. Groundhog Day
Pandora Sykes revisits the events leading to Britney's conservatorship and its key players
4. Gossip Girl
Pandora Sykes revisits the toxic collusion of paparazzi and gossip blogs in the early 00s
1. Quiet Plans
Pandora Sykes explains how and when Britney Spears was placed in a legal conservatorship
2. A Star is Born
Pandora Sykes explores Britney's hardscrabble childhood and stint as a Disney child star
Welcome to Pieces of Britney with Pandora Sykes
Britney Spears: introducing an in-depth look at her journey so far.
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