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Woman's Hour

Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll, Janey Godley, Karen Teasdale-Robson, Edwina Paisley

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Emma Barnett talks to the award winning actor Claire Foy about playing the Duchess of Argyll in the BBC One TV series A Very British Sacandal this Christmas. Margaret Argyll was branded a nymphomaniac by her husband the 11th Duke of Argyll in their explosive 1963 divorce hearing and he was granted a divorce on the grounds of his wife’s adultery.

The Scottish comedian Janey Godley tells us about her recent diagnosis of ovarian cancer. The sixty year old is best known for her parody voiceovers of Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of her daily press briefings made during lockdown. Just a month ago Janey Godley was forced to cut short her UK tour when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

The father-daughter bond can for some be a difficult one - but for others, a joy. Karen Teasdale-Robson from Blaydon, near Newcastle has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure her father, Bryan isn't forgotten when he dies. Her dad for the majority of his life was a poet and a songwriter but an assault ten years ago left him with a brain injury. Care workers told Karen to prepare for the worst earlier this year, which led her to release a recording of lullaby he had written her almost 60 years ago, to ask for the public's help in re-recording it

And Edwina Paisley on her work as the Director of Space Programmes at the satellite communications company Inmarsat.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Produer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Bob Nettles

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:39.5

We find ourselves yet again, faced with a Monday, this time time five days before Christmas and again with

0:45.3

a degree of uncertainty about the pandemic may or may not alter plans one thing that is

0:51.6

certain is that a woman Emma Rad Radicarnu, did win the BBC Sports Personality

0:55.8

of the Year Award last night for her stunning US Open win, becoming the first female tennis player

1:00.4

to be crowned. Sports Personality of the year since of course Virginia

1:03.8

aid in 1977 the last British woman to win a grand slam singles title of course it

1:10.6

being 2021 Emma Radicano accepted the award in quarantine, recovering from COVID in Abu

1:16.0

Dabby saying she was simply a 19-year-old from Bromley.

1:19.7

That's who she is.

1:20.9

Nothing else to it.

1:21.9

Well, huge congratulations to her.

1:24.0

A stunning way to end the year.

1:26.1

We were talking about whether a woman may win it

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