Educating Rita at 40, Muslim women on love and desire & Teen mum to midwife
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Forty years since Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita was first performed we hear from some real life Rita’s, Willy Russell and Julie Walters on the films influence
Sam Baker, the former editor of Cosmopolitan and Red and author of The Shift, Kelechi Okafor who’s an actor, director and podcaster and the journalist, Rebecca Reid, who’s written The Power of Rude on how to be assertive without coming across as angry and unapproachable .
We hear how a book, A Match Made in Heaven, featuring stories by British Muslim Women about Love And Desire is trying to get beyond the stereotypes of subservient Muslim women. Editors Nafhesa Ali and Claire Chambers and the writer Noren Haq discuss.
Dame Cressida Dick the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police tells us how the force is managing during the ongoing pandemic
Stephanie Walker on how she went from a fourteen year old pregnant teenager to a fully qualified midwife.
Plus the author Ann Cleaves talks about her latest novel The Darkest Evening – the ninth in the Vera series
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Beverley Purcell
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| 0:32.5 | Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:36.4 | It's 40 years since Willie Russell's play, Educating Rita was first performed. |
| 0:41.9 | Just how influential was it on real life retail? Rita was |
| 0:43.7 | on real life Rita's. |
| 0:45.4 | We'll talk to to the head of the Met |
| 0:47.4 | Dame Cressida Dick about policing during the pandemic |
| 0:50.9 | and hear about the midwife who encouraged teen mom Stephanie Walker not to give up on her own dreams. |
| 0:57.0 | Just the way she communicated with me totally empowered me that I was in control of this. I can have great outcomes and it wasn't the end of the world. |
| 1:06.8 | She spoke positively about what I can achieve and just totally empowered me to be a better parent and just to take more control of my life. |
| 1:15.0 | And Stephanie Walker is now a midwife herself, which is brilliant, so you can hear from her a little later in the program. |
| 1:21.0 | We'll also talk about how you can be assertive without leaving behind you a trail of indignation and outright annoyance |
| 1:28.0 | and you'll hear for one of my favourite writers, Anne Cleves, on why her detective Vera Stanhope is going to be around for a little while yet. |
| 1:36.3 | I think the great thing because she's set here in the northeast where I live, there's such a wide |
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