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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor Demi Moore is a name recognised by many, from her standout role as Molly Jensen in the film Ghost, to Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway in A Few Good Men. But it’s her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in new movie, The Substance, which has got a lot of people talking. Many see it as a commentary on Hollywood’s beauty standards and fear of ageing. Demi joins Kylie Pentelow live to discuss it.
Last week the BBC broadcast Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods, a documentary and podcast which alleged that former Harrods chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed sexually assaulted women who worked at the store. Kylie speaks to the woman who was the catalyst for the documentary - Sofia Stone and to her husband Keaton Stone. Sofia alleges that she was groomed and then sexually assaulted by Al-Fayed. Keaton was determined to help her and approached other women who had worked at Harrods. The BBC has heard testimony from more than 20 female ex-employees who say Al-Fayed, who died last year, sexually assaulted or raped them. The current owners say they are "utterly appalled" by the allegations and are seeking to settle claims "in the quickest way possible”.
How women cracked Wall Street, the iconic hub of New York's finance district, is the subject of writer and historian Paulina Bren's book She Wolves. It tells the inside story of these women, from the sixties up until 9/11.
Today the charity Women for Women release their findings which offers a rare glimpse in to the perspectives of women living in conflict areas. The charity’s International Director Sara Bowcutt joins Kylie to explain their findings.
Presenter: Kylie Pentelow Producer: Emma Pearce
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0:00.0 | We're living under more tyranny today than our founding fathers did in 1775. |
0:05.6 | A US presidential election is looming, but underneath... |
0:09.6 | conspiracy culture rears its head once again and nothing is as it seems. |
0:16.0 | All those things that we had feared was coming true. |
0:18.0 | Burn the house down and start over. |
0:20.0 | It's America through the looking class. |
0:23.0 | Join me, Gabriel Gatehouse, as the coming storm continues. |
0:27.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:30.0 | Hello, this is Kylie Pentelow, and you're listening to the Women's Hour podcast. |
0:36.0 | Good morning and welcome to Women's Hour. |
0:38.8 | Today I'll speak to Hollywood A-Lister, Demi Moore. She is the star of a new film which explores |
0:45.2 | aging in a very confronting way and she's naked in a number of scenes. |
0:50.8 | I'll be talking to her about that and how she feels about her body image now. |
0:55.8 | So we want to ask you, as you get older, how do you celebrate your aging body? |
1:02.1 | You can text the program, the number is 8484 or you can send a |
1:06.3 | WhatsApp message or voice note using the number oh three 700 |
1:10.6 | 100 444. Also you will have heard the allegations about Mohammed Al-Fyed and the documentary |
1:17.6 | that's mobilised many women to come forward. Today we'll hear from the woman |
1:22.0 | who was the catalyst for making that documentary. |
1:25.0 | After not telling anyone, decades later she told her partner who's in the TV industry |
1:31.0 | about what happened to her when she worked at Harrods. |
1:34.5 | And then together they spoke to others who said they'd been abused. |
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