Actor Anne Marie Duff, Chinese feminism, the story of Henrietta Howard

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Actor Anne Marie Duff talks to Emma Barnett playing a working class matriarch in a new play that spans five decades of the lives, and deaths, of the Webster family. Last September 19, 2021, Sophia Huang Xueqin, the Chinese journalist who kick-started China’s #MeToo movement, disappeared. We find out what has happened to her from BBC Eye journalist Jessie Lau who's been investigating her disappearance,. Plus writer and journalist Lijia Zhang explains what it's like to be a feminist in China. Plus Anna Eavis the Curatorial director at English Heritage tells us the the story of Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, and mistress of King George II, as Marble Hill, a Palladian villa built in the 1720s for her, prepares to open to the public following its restoration Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell Photo credit; Helen Murray

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.5	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:12.8	Today the actor Anne Marie Duff will be with me shortly to talk about her latest role
0:17.1	on stage in a new play, which sees her becoming an incredible but quite unlikeable matriarch.
0:23.8	I did see it last week and you can love this woman one minute and despise her the next.
0:28.8	And I thought it would be good today to make some space on the programme
0:31.6	to hear about the formidable matriarchs who've passed through your life.
0:35.4	They might still be in them of course.
0:36.8	Or in some way someone like that that perhaps fits the bill that you think of when I say the word matriarch.
0:42.5	For good or bad, I'm in the market for both.
0:45.4	Please do get in touch if you can with some of those stories who these women are.
0:49.8	Why?
0:50.7	Perhaps they come to mind when you hear the word matriarch and also the word formidable.
0:54.5	And what was going on in their life that sometimes made them perhaps more difficult?
0:59.3	84844 is the number you need to text me here at Woman's Hour on social media,
1:03.5	it's at BBC Woman's Hour or email me through the Woman's Hour website.
1:07.7	I'll be talking to Anne Marie Duff about how she gets in to such a character
1:11.1	and why that character is the way she is very shortly indeed.
1:14.7	Also on today's programme, there might not be a functioning devolved government in Northern Ireland right now,
1:19.5	but some of the female newly elected and re-elected members of the Northern Ireland's legislative assembly
1:25.1	are still dealing with the fallout of the recent elections.
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