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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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by E.V Crowe.
Single parent Ana is pretty sure she isn't being paid fairly at work. She's tried her boss; she's tried HR - to no avail. So now she needs to find out how much her colleague Dave earns in order to make her case. So one night, she turns up at his flat to ask him...
Crackling two-hander from award-winning writer E.V Crowe that asks: how far would you go to get what's fair?
Ana....Ellie Kendrick Dave....Sam Swann
Production co-ordinator....Gaelan Davis-Connolly Sound by Ali Craig, Keith Graham and Andrew Garratt Written by E.V Crowe Directed by Abigail le Fleming
The Writer E V Crowe is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme Super Group, and a writer for Theatre, Film, TV, Radio and Dance. She has had four plays on at the Royal Court. Her work for radio includes the award-winning How To Say Goodbye Properly and two series of comic but political two-hander Cry Babies.
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0:06.3 | The atrocity of it is beyond. |
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0:14.0 | I'm starting to wonder what on earth I've got myself into. |
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0:45.0 | Welcome to Drama you want to. |
0:47.0 | by Evie Crow. I wish there was a way to block out the truth. |
1:07.0 | I wish I didn't know what I now know. |
1:09.0 | That women earn less than men the longer they are in the workforce, but the problem just grows and grows. |
1:15.6 | I wish I didn't know that a woman, Claudia Golden, won the Nobel Prize for proving all of this |
1:20.5 | in her research, and that she calls it the dirty truth. A male friend |
1:25.4 | might leave university at the same time as his female friend but she's going to |
1:28.9 | end up earning less and less than him over time. There is a gap between young women's expectations |
1:34.5 | and what is actually likely to happen to them. So we dream and we convince |
1:39.1 | ourselves that if we work hard everything will be okay in the end but it's a lie a big fat lie and to make |
1:46.7 | me feel better about this I'm supposed to do hot yoga apparently or a face mask or go cold water swimming. As well as investigating the dirty |
1:59.5 | truth of women's totally legal slide into inequality over the course of their lives. |
2:04.4 | Claudia Golden also talks about what she calls the cockroaches, the stuff that's actually |
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