"I remember pretty much nothing from school but I can still recite the whole of Ghostbusters," says Guardian journalist and author Hadley Freeman.

Freeman joined Tom Dunne on Tuesday's show to mark the release of her new book Life Moves Pretty Fast: the Lessons we Learned from Eighties Movies. The book is a whirlwind trip down memory lane as Freeman dissects such classic as Back to the Future, Dirty Dancing and When Harry Met Sally.

"Dirty Dancing, when you look at it now, is really about the importance of the legality of abortion. Eleanor Bergstein, who made the movie, talked to me for my book and she said she wanted to make a movie about the importance of abortion because women in the eighties were beginning to forget about the lessons of feminism and were taking it for granted," explained the writer.

She also feels that many of the groundbreaking movies of the eighties wouldn't get funding today because Hollywood has become more conservative.

"There are a lot more pressure groups in America that put a lot of pressure on the studios about what they can and can't show...during the eighties the studios were all bought up by big conglomerates," she said.

To listen to the full interview, simply click on the above link.

Life Moves Pretty Fast: the Lessons we Learned from Eighties Movies is out this week