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Meet Paris Lees - the true story behind the BBC drama What It Feels Like For A Girl

Meet Paris Lees, the subject of the hit new BBC drama

Evening Standard

Ellis Howard: 'as a queer person, to wear your own skin is an act of protest'

The actor is stepping into a leading role, writing a show with James Graham and is a proud activist

Evening Standard

What It Feels Like For A Girl on BBC Three review: fearless and compelling TV

4/5 Ellis Howard shines in this adaptation of Paris Lee’s memoir of sex work, drugs and crime at the turn of the millennium

Evening Standard

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Paris Lees adaptation What It Feels Like for a Girl is a raw, engaging case for optimism

4/5 Messy coming-of-age tale is both universal and rooted in the transgender experience

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Paris Lees’ captivating millennial coming-of-age drama

Byron is a working-class teenager desperate for a different life. Plus: a great art series continues with Lubaina Himid. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

What It Feels Like for a Girl review – deeply disturbing and totally fearless TV

This extraordinary adaptation of Paris Lees’ memoir follows wild, witty teen Byron as they go from cottaging for cash aged 15 to finding solace in a raucous gang of trans and queer pals. You’ll never look at a loo brush the same way

The Guardian - UK

‘All of us felt like we had touched gold’: What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric coming-of-age tale

Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s like Jane Austen

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Paris Lees says coming-of-age BBC series ‘struck gold’ with cast

What It Feels Like For A Girl is based on journalist Paris Lees’ memoir, recounting her formative years when she lived as a boy named Byron.

Evening Standard

What It Feels Like For A Girl: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and everything you need to know

What It Feels Like For A Girl is a coming-of-age story following a frank and fearless trans woman.

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‘Bodacious!’ A thrilling new take on Robert Mapplethorpe, by ex-Vogue editor Edward Enninful

He shook up the world of fashion. For his next move, the sartorial supremo wants to change how we view the explosively provocative photographer. Edward Enninful reveals all about his first show

The Guardian - UK

What an English degree did for me, by Tulip Siddiq, Sarah Waters and more

As universities close their English literature courses, we celebrate 40 influential British graduates

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