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Woman's Hour

Actor Ruth Wilson. Kinship Care. Rear Admiral Jude Terry. Body hair in history.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Best known for The Affair and Luther, and more recently playing her own grandmother in a BBC drama, actor Ruth Wilson joins Emma to talk about her two latest roles – on the London stage in The Human Voice and on screen in True Things. Jude Terry is the first female Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy’s history. Since joining the Navy in 1997, she has served aboard HMS Scott, and spent two spells with helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, during operations in the Baltic and the Gulf. Two months into her post, Emma talks to her about her new role. What’s the best way of looking after children who can no longer stay with their birth parents when a family breaks down? Woman’s Hour understands that the Independent Review of Social Care in England is set to recommend that there should be a renewed focus on alternatives to care with a major focus on kinship care. As the charity Kinship sets out its vision of what needs to change, Emma talks to its Chief Executive, Dr Lucy Peake, and to Meyrem, about what it’s like to be a kinship carer. Woman's Hour delves into the archive to remember Madeleine Albright, the first US Secretary of State. As the Taliban announces girls will not be allowed to attend secondary school, we hear the voices of girls heartbroken by the decision and the reaction of Malala Yousafzai. Why don't women in period dramas have body hair? TV shows go to huge lengths with their sets, costumes and wigs to make you feel like you’re looking back at the past but why – given hair removal is a fairly modern development - is body hair so rarely seen? Historian, Dr Marissa C Rhodes joins Emma to discuss. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Alison Carter Photo Credit: Jan Versweyveld.

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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 R from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.9

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

0:13.9

The famous words of the history maker, Madeline Allbright,

0:17.2

of course the first woman to serve as Secretary of State in America,

0:20.4

has died aged 84.

0:22.5

Today you all hear her voice from the Woman's R archive

0:25.6

and also from an interview I conducted with her in May 2020

0:29.6

just at the start of the pandemic,

0:31.5

where she was at pains to say,

0:33.1

do not write off older people,

0:35.4

especially during lockdowns around the world.

0:38.0

She also in that conversation demonstrated her excellent turn of phrase,

0:41.7

saying she thought there was no way not to have guilt as your middle name as a woman

0:45.8

and opened up about why her husband leaving her for another woman

0:49.5

kickstarted her career and quest for independence.

0:52.7

In fact, she said she got her first proper job at 39.

0:56.0

And yes, by 59, she was making history as the first woman.

0:59.5

She was at the moment to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.

1:01.9

But going back to those words there's a special place in hell

1:04.7

for women who don't help each other.

1:07.2

Who are the women who have helped you?

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