Bridget Christie, Windrush Women, Helen and Rob in the Archers
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Bridget Christie’s stand-up has been credited with putting the funny in feminism. You might know her from Taskmaster or Ghosts. Now she’s created and stars in a comedy drama called The Change, which starts this week on Channel 4. She plays Linda, a woman who turns 50, discovers she’s menopausal and abandons her family to go off and find herself in the Forest of Dean. Bridget joins Nuala in studio.
On Thursday, the UK will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush which made the 5,000 mile journey from the Caribbean to England in 1948. The passengers were mainly made up of ex-servicemen along with over 200 bold, pioneering women. Veteran nurse and founder of the Windrush Cymru Elders, Roma Taylor, former nurse Allyson Williams and journalist Amina Taylor join Nuala to discuss their experiences of leaving home to help rebuild Britain after WWII.
Even if you aren’t a fan of the Archers you're probably familiar with the Helen and Rob storyline that featured coercive control and domestic violence back in 2016. Rob, the perpetrator, eventually got his comeuppance and was banished to the US. Now nearly seven years later Rob has returned. Joining Nuala to talk about the latest twists and turns is the actor who plays Helen, Louiza Patikas.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, this is Nulem Agoveren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | Now maybe you listen to the archers in addition to this program on Radio 4. |
| 0:15.4 | If so, or even if not, do stay with us because we'll have Louisa Paticus who plays Helen |
| 0:21.8 | Archer on this hour. |
| 0:24.8 | As Rob Titchner, Radio's greatest villain in the plot line about the worse of control, |
| 0:30.4 | it did grippless nurse back in 2016 and money sought as a defining moment for the drama |
| 0:35.8 | with an unprecedented response to Helen's plight. |
| 0:39.0 | What we're going to hear from Louisa about how that character has evolved in the past seven |
| 0:43.9 | years and also how Helen as a survivor of rape and coercive control now interacts with |
| 0:49.8 | Rob who wants access to their child that's coming up. |
| 0:54.0 | Also today as you're just hearing in the news bulletin and you commemorative 50P coin, |
| 0:58.7 | marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in the UK has been |
| 1:03.9 | released by the Royal Mint. |
| 1:05.9 | It pays tribute to the British Caribbean and Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the |
| 1:10.0 | UK from 1948 to 1973. |
| 1:12.9 | Well today we want to hear your family stories about coming to the UK during that time and |
| 1:18.7 | to do that you can get in touch with the program texting 84844 or at BBC Women's Hour |
| 1:24.9 | on social media or email us through our website and if you'd like to leave a voice note |
| 1:30.0 | or WhatsApp message that number is 037001444. |
| 1:36.1 | We will hear the stories of two women recruited to come to the UK from the Caribbean to nurse |
| 1:40.9 | for the NHS and also hear from a younger woman who came in the 90s and she'll reflect |
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