Actor Helen George, 'Stevenage Woman', Author Diana Evans

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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She is best known for her role as the Poplar-based midwife Trixie Franklin, in Call the Midwife. Helen George has also been a star of Strictly Come Dancing, sung with Elton John and at Buckingham Palace to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. She now brings all her theatrical skills together by stepping into Deborah Kerr's shoes to play the part of Anna in a UK tour of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. Is ‘Stevenage Woman’ the new ‘Mondeo Man’? The Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer is being urged to focus on this female swing voter group in a new report by left-leaning think tank Labour Together. But how useful are these profiles and why are they used? And from ‘Workington Man’ to ‘Essex Man’, why are they typically male? We discuss with Rosie Campbell, Professor of politics and Patrick English, Associate Director at Yougov. A House for Alice is the new novel by Diana Evans, a sequel to the much acclaimed Ordinary People. It is a multigenerational portrait of a black British family, and explores the impact of matriarch Alice’s decision to return to the country of her birth, Nigeria, to live out her later years. Diana joins Nuala in the studio to discuss the inspiration behind the novel. Did you ever flick through Carole Jackson’s hit book ‘Colour Me Beautiful’ to “find your season”? The popular 1980s trend of ‘getting your colours done’ is back. The hashtag #colouranalysis has 766million views on TikTok and you can even find a filter to work out your colours for yourself. So, as we are once again asking ‘what season am I?” We talk to Journalist Kat Brown who is a big believer in the power of colour, and Nisha Hunjan, founder of Style ME UK, who uses colour analysis. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	Hello, this is Nulam Agavren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:10.6	I'm wondering where you are fan of the King and I. What about call the midwife?
0:15.5	Aston Villa?
0:16.5	Well, if the answer is yes to any of those, you will be happy to hear.
0:19.6	We have Helen George on the program today who is intrinsically linked to all of the above.
0:24.4	I'm looking forward to speaking to her and finding it out among other things.
0:28.6	How she maneuvers across stages in voluminous stresses because she's on tour with the King
0:33.6	and I, so there's lots to talk about.
0:35.7	And onto a different woman?
0:37.4	Stevenage Woman is that you?
0:39.7	Apparently a mum in her early 40s, she's got two kids, works hard, plays by the rules
0:45.2	and pays the bills.
0:46.8	But this is a demographic that political parties apparently want to attract ahead of the next
0:51.5	general election.
0:53.2	What do you make of that?
0:54.2	Narrowing a vote or down to certain attributes.
0:57.6	We had Mondayoman or workington man, but we're going to see what's behind the Stevenage woman.
1:03.5	Mondayoman, that was in the 90s, right?
1:05.3	We're also going to go back to the 80s because we're asking, did you ever get your colors
1:10.5	done, figuring out what colors look best on you?
1:13.5	Well it is back, thanks to social media, so we're going to have a chat about that and
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