Gemma Arterton, Care Homes, The Astronomer Royal

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Gemma Arterton’s latest acting role is in a play called Walden. It's on in London’s West End and it's the story of estranged twin sisters: one's a botanist for Nasa and the other's a former architect for Nasa. They meet up in a remote cabin in the woods sometime in the future, when the earth’s situation is looking bleak.

We take a look at some of claims made yesterday by Dominic Cummings about care homes with Gisella Casciello Rogers whose 85 year old father died in one last year. And we also have Helen Wildbore from The Relatives and Residents Association.

Prof Catherine Heymans, astrophysicist and world-leading expert in the so-called dark universe, is now the Astronomer Royal of Scotland. She's the first woman to hold this prestigious role, but the problem is she's still not entirely convinced she should have the job. She suffers from impostor syndrome, but we know she shouldn't! She talks to Emma about challenging the status quo and dealing with aggressive criticism.

And we have Annie Macmanus (formerly known as Annie Mac, the DJ) and Esther Freud talking about their new novels which have common themes: motherhood and the risk of losing yourself.

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
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0:41.0	Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. not. Today one of my guests the actor Gemma Artichton was due on stage on
0:54.0	Tuesday evening in fact I was sat there in the audience eagerly anticipating her
0:58.4	performance and then suddenly at 726 a member of the team came on stage to announce that the play was being cancelled that evening
1:06.1	after a member of the backstage team received a notification from track and trace that someone
1:10.8	they'd been in contact with had COVID. All of that came out afterwards.
1:15.2	Well, hear how that was, waiting to go on in the wings and they're not. But unexpected cancellations,
1:21.3	we thought this was a good opportunity to hear about yours last minute
1:24.4	changes of plans. What happened? It was meant to happen, what didn't happen, what
1:29.0	was cancelled last minute. How did you regroup? Have you regrouped? Of course we've thought a lot this
1:33.7	year about weddings but there's been all sorts of other examples and they may
1:36.9	predate the last year. We would like to hear those stories. What happened next?
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