Actors Laura Dern and Diane Ladd, Nurses Strikes, Sarah Gilmartin
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The book Honey, Baby, Mine is a joint project of mother/daughter actors Diane Ladd, and Laura Dern. Working together is not unusual for these two as over decades they have taken their connection onto our screens but as fictional parent and child. Now 87 and 56, they have both had, and continue to have, critically-acclaimed careers with many character roles, gaining them numerous awards and nominations. They join Nuala to discuss their latest project.
Nurses in England are taking part in what the Royal College of Nursing is calling 'the biggest walkout so far' today, and some teachers are striking tomorrow. Nuala speaks to Dr Susan Milner to talk about these female-dominated sectors taking industrial action.
Nuala is also joined by one of the Grassroots women on our Power List, celebrating the 30 most remarkable women in sport in the UK. Somayeh Caesar is a teaching assistant in London and has set up several sporting clubs for women and girls.
Service is the new novel by the author and critic Sarah Gilmartin. Famed Dublin chef Daniel Costello who runs a successful high-end restaurant is facing accusations of sexual assault. Set between the present day and the earlier noughties, the story is told from the perspective of three voices- the waitress, the chef, and the chef’s wife. It’s a story of power, abuse, complicity and Metoo. Sarah joins Nuala to discuss her new book.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, this is Nulam Agavren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello and good morning and welcome to Woman's Hour on this bank holiday Monday. |
| 0:13.7 | Well we have movie superstars for you today, not just Laura Duren, but also her mum, Diane |
| 0:20.1 | Ladd. |
| 0:21.1 | They've written a beautiful book together from conversations they heard when Diane |
| 0:25.0 | was ill and Laura was trying to walk her back to health. |
| 0:28.8 | Thankfully she succeeded and now has a stack of stories to relay. |
| 0:33.3 | So we're going to hear some of them. |
| 0:35.0 | Also today, Sarah Gilmarten who has written service, it's her second novel. |
| 0:39.5 | It's set in Dublin. |
| 0:40.7 | It focuses on a restaurant with a celebrity chef and we follow an alleged crime through |
| 0:45.8 | the perspectives of the chef, his wife and also one of the young waitresses. |
| 0:51.0 | And this is a story of power, of celebrity and also of the me too movement. |
| 0:56.4 | And it's very perceptive about so many aspects I found of restaurant culture and also |
| 1:01.6 | to the streets of Dublin from the 90s to the naughty. |
| 1:04.6 | So we'll hear all about that. |
| 1:06.5 | You probably heard in the news bulletin there about the nurses strike today. |
| 1:09.3 | We will update you on that and also the plan teacher strike tomorrow. |
| 1:13.7 | And we have another amazing woman from our woman's hour power list. |
| 1:17.8 | Today it's the turn of some A.C. |
| 1:20.2 | Zer. |
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