Actor Samantha Morton, Mary Beard, Leap year proposals
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The twice Oscar-nominated actor Samantha Morton has just received the Bafta Fellowship: a lifetime achievement award which recognises an outstanding contribution to film and television. She grew up in the social care system and began working in film and television at the age of 13. In a moving speech at the Baftas last week, Samantha dedicated the award to every child in care today.
2024 is a leap year and 29 February is the day when traditionally women are "allowed" to propose to their male partner. We hear your stories and discuss the tradition with wedding speech writer Heidi Ellert-McDermott, and Dr Vera Beckley-Hoelscher, an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London.
People in their early 20s are more likely to be out of work because of ill health than those in their early 40s, according to a new report . Lindsay Judge, Research Director at The Resolution Foundation, which carried out the research, explains how young women are particularly affected and are one-and-a-half times more likely to experince poor mental health than young men.
And Emma speaks to the world-famous classicist Mary Beard about Legion - the new exhibition at the British Museum, about life in the Roman army. Mary will share stories of some remarkable women who lived in Roman military bases.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer:Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Emma Harth
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| 0:00.0 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
| 0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
| 0:16.0 | Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer. |
| 0:20.0 | Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B. |
| 0:24.1 | I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things. |
| 0:30.0 | Young again, with me, Kirstie Young, |
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| 0:40.0 | Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensar from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.0 | Good morning. It would be ideal, wouldn't it, would it not, to start the week feeling like anything is possible, |
| 0:51.0 | ignoring the winds and the rain if the elements have already |
| 0:53.8 | smacked you in the face today already. I've had that joy. My first guest today, |
| 0:57.8 | the actor Samantha Morton, is certainly the living embodiment of that, having grown up in |
| 1:01.8 | the care system, conquered Hollywood, |
| 1:03.8 | and having just become one of the younger recipients of the prestigious Bafter Fellowship |
| 1:07.6 | Award last week, I'll be talking to her in just a moment. |
| 1:10.7 | Equally another formidable woman joins me today, Mary Beard, to paint a picture |
| 1:14.9 | of women's lives alongside and around the huge force that was the Roman army. |
| 1:20.0 | And yet keeping on with the idea that anything is possible, or should certainly seem possible, we hope, |
| 1:25.6 | we'll be talking about the fact that we are in a leap year, about to hit that elusive 29th of February this week, |
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