Elizabeth McGovern, Trump's visit to D-Day: Decoding state ceremony
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Elizabeth McGovern, best known in the UK for being Lady Cora in Downton Abbey is in a play in London at the moment called Starry Messenger. Elizabeth plays the wife of a man going through a mid-life crisis. Plus the latest Sadie and the Hotheads news.
From President Trump’s state visit to D-Day celebrations, we reflect on a week of ceremony with Jess Brammar Executive Editor, HuffPost UK, Sarah Elliot Chair of Republicans Overseas UK, and Bonnie Greer, columnist with the New European newspaper, playwright and critic. We continue our look at women sports coaches as part of coaching week with tennis coach, Francesca Lewis. She fell in love with the game when she was just 8 years old, and she went on to compete in tournaments right across the world. But it was as a tennis coach, rather than a player, that Francesca really found her calling. She now trains some of the best junior players in the world at Swansea’s Regional Player Development Centre.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Helen Fitzhenry
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| 0:35.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the podcast for Women's Hour for Friday the 7th of June. |
| 0:41.0 | Elizabeth McGovern best known as Lady Cora in downtown Abbey, soon to be in the cinema, |
| 0:46.6 | has a new film, The Chaperone, and the role of the wife in middle age in the West End play, The Starry Messenger. She's now 57. How much are things improving for women in the |
| 0:56.7 | acting profession as they get older? In coaching week, the tennis coach, Francesca Lewis |
| 1:02.2 | trains some of the best junior players in the world |
| 1:04.8 | and the serial the final episode of I am a slave now it's been quite a week as we |
| 1:11.8 | followed the arrival of Donald Trump, his wife Malania and his entire |
| 1:16.1 | family for a state visit in the presence of the Queen and almost her entire family. |
| 1:21.2 | The Duchess of Sussex of course was absent from the official |
| 1:24.4 | programme then there was the commemoration of D-Day on both sides of the channel |
| 1:29.3 | the Peterborough by-election in which labour won a narrow victory and today is the day on which |
| 1:35.2 | Theresa May officially steps down as leader of the Conservative Party although she |
| 1:40.0 | remains Prime Minister until a new one is chosen. |
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