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Woman's Hour

Figs in Wigs & 'Little Wimmin', Former Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, Rachael Denhollander & USA Gymnastics

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Northern Ireland politics are once again in flux and the government can't really function. At the beginning of February, Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill lost her role in Stormont after First Minister Paul Givan, a member of the DUP, resigned. In her role as Deputy over the years, she worked closely with former DUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster. Now she could be on track to become the first Nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland. In her first interview with Woman's Hour, she joins Emma. When you think of Little Women, you might not think of climate change, astrology or contemporary feminism. However, all-female performance collective Figs in Wigs have updated the classic for a new generation in Little Wimmin, a surrealist theatre show. What starts as a faithful adaptation of the book gradually becomes an absurdist and hilarious commentary on the issues facing women today. We discuss with cast members Sarah Moore and Alice Roots. In 2016 Rachael Denhollander became the first woman to publicly accuse the USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar of sexual assault. Her stand led to hundreds of other women coming forward to tell their stories of how Nassar had also abused them under the guise of medical treatment. Their testimony, as well as the discovery of tens of thousands of child sexual abuse images on his computer, eventually led to his imprisonment. Rachael talks about her fight for justice and the impact on elite gymnastics culture. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Michelle O'Neill Interviewed Guest: Sarah Moore Interviewed Guest: Alice Roots Interviewed Guest: Rachael Denhollander Photographer: Rosie Collins

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.8

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:11.9

An apparently deliberate airstrike on women and children.

0:15.3

As it's confirmed that three people, including a child, were killed in a Russian strike

0:19.5

on a maternity and children's hospital in the city of Mariple yesterday,

0:23.4

the war in Ukraine seems to have gone to another level.

0:26.8

President Zelensky speaking Russian, rather than Ukrainian, for part of his latest video

0:31.4

address, described the action as a war crime.

0:34.9

He said what kind of country is Russia that it's afraid of hospitals and maternity wards

0:40.0

and destroys them?

0:41.9

Boris Johnson has said there are a few things more depraved than targeting the vulnerable

0:45.9

and defenseless.

0:46.9

Well, shortly we're going to explore why this is a potential war strategy and its impact,

0:52.5

but I of course want to give you the chance to speak and react.

0:56.0

You can text me here at Woman's Hour and 84844.

0:58.6

Text will be charged at your standard message rate on social media or at BBC Woman's Hour

1:02.9

or email me through the Woman's Hour website.

1:06.2

Also on today's programme, the woman who's until very recently was the most powerful woman

1:10.6

in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fain's Michelle O'Neill.

1:13.7

The theatre troupe bringing Luisa May Alcott's little woman into 2022 and live in the studio

1:19.4

I'll be joined by Rachel Den Hollander, the first woman to publicly accuse the US Gymnastics

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