Elizabeth Strout, Girls Will Be Girls, Women's safety, Labour women and donations

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the BBC it's "right" not to accept donations for clothing now she's in government. This is following reports that she took £7,500 from a donor for clothing between January 2023 to May 2024. Keir Starmer, his wife Lady Victoria Starmer and the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner have also accepted money for clothes, and on Friday, Downing Street said that would no longer continue. To discuss the issue of women and donations, Kylie Pentelow is joined by political journalists Rachel Sylvester from the Times and Eleni Courea from the Guardian.

The Sundance award-winning film, Girls Will Be Girls, follows the journey of 16-year-old Mira, who discovers desire and romance whilst attending a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas. But her rebellious sexual awakening is disrupted by her mother, who never got to come of age herself. Kylie discusses the film with the writer and director, Shuchi Talati, and actress Preeti Panigrahi who plays Mira.

The Labour Party conference is underway in Liverpool. A topic likely to feature heavily in tomorrow’s speech by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is women’s safety. Joining Kylie to give us their views on what they think needs to be prioritised by this government is director and founder of the Centre for Women’s Justice, Harriet Wistrich, and the campaigner Georgia Harrison.

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of many novels including Olive Kitteridge and the Lucy Barton books. Tell Me Everything is her latest novel where she revisits several of the characters who appear in her previous work. She joins Kylie live in the Woman’s Hour studio to talk about her characters and themes of friendship.

Presented by Kylie Pentelow Producer: Louise Corley

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0:00.0	I'm Kim Ketrau and I want to tell you about my new podcast a new audio drama telling the history of the CIA from the inside out.
0:09.0	The United States of America was suddenly its worst domestic attack.
0:14.0	He's got to convince Congress to give him an open checkbook now.
0:18.0	America has suffered its worst domestic attack of the 20th century at Pearl Harbor.
0:23.0	How do we make contact with the NKGB?
0:27.0	Central Intelligence, starring me, Kim Kertral, Ed Harris, and Johnny Flynn.
0:31.0	There's $50,000 in it for you if you say yes.
0:34.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.7	Hello, this is Kylie Pentelow,
0:39.6	and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. Good morning and welcome to Women's Hour.
0:45.0	On today's program, Violence against Women and Girls,
0:49.0	the Home Secretary of Bet Cooper has made a commitment to cut it by half. Is that realistic? We hear from a woman who was a victim of image-based sexual violence.
1:00.0	Also, she's a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and has now released her tenth novel.
1:05.0	Elizabeth Stroud joins me in the studio.
1:08.0	Now in her new book she brings many of her much loved characters like
1:12.0	Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton together and a key theme
1:15.9	is friendship, particularly intergenerational friendships.
1:20.3	So have you got a friend who's much younger or much older than you?
1:24.0	Now I don't think my friend Rosie will mind me telling you that she's 75 and I'm 45.
1:30.0	And I think I can say we both get a lot out of it.
1:33.0	That 30 year age gap means we both have very different experiences
1:37.0	to bring to the relationship.
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