Cush Jumbo, Author Kate Mosse, Sue Gray quits, Women in business

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Prime Minister's chief of staff Sue Gray has left her post and has been replaced by Morgan McSweeney. It's led some papers to claim "the lads have won this round". To discuss, Nuala McGovern is joined by Caroline Slocock, former civil servant and author of Margaret Thatcher and Me, which reflects on women and power.

Actor Cush Jumbo has reprised the role of Lady Macbeth alongside David Tennant in Macbeth which has just transferred to the Harold Pinter theatre in London. She joins Nuala to discuss how she is approaching one of Shakespeare’s most famous female characters.

A recent government survey showed a sharp decline in the number of female-led businesses. Last year, only 15% of businesses employing fewer than 250 people were owned or led by women, down from 18% in 2022. Debbie Wosskow, serial entrepreneur and co-chair of the Invest in Women Taskforce, joins Nuala.

Kate Mosse is soon to release The Map of Bones, the fourth and final instalment in her series of novels The Joubert Family Chronicles, which begin in 1562 and follow a persecuted Huguenot family, charting generations of courageous and resilient women.

Adventurer Elise Wortley is following in the footsteps of forgotten female explorers… all whilst wearing the same, historically accurate clothing. She joins Nuala to tell her more about her mission.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to tell you why I love
0:03.7	podcasting. I'm Natasha Aronson I'm an assistant commissioner for the BBC and I work on
0:09.4	making podcasts my real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest
0:16.9	stars who can really bring those stories to life.
0:20.1	I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final edit.
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0:47.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello, this is Nula McGovran and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:52.0	Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour podcast.
0:52.8	Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour.
0:54.8	Well, this hour we have the actor Cush Jumbo who is playing Lady Macbeth.
0:59.6	What a role.
1:01.2	Now when I went to a performance last week it began as my day here often does by putting on a pair of headphones
1:07.6	so we're going to chat about the bin our old technology employed. It is something quite special
1:12.2	particularly for radio lovers. We also have
1:15.1	the novelist Kate Moss. Kate has a new book at The Map of Bones. It's a sprawling
1:19.5	epic of women adventurers over centuries that take us around the globe.
1:24.2	And I'm looking forward to hearing about how she researched the journeys of her
1:27.4	protagonists to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
1:31.8	We also have another adventure on the program, Elise Wirtley.
1:35.2	She has retraced the steps of female explorers and I am expecting Elise in studio in full hiking gear
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