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Woman's Hour

Isabelle Huppert, NHS Whistleblower line, The Kill List, author Cecelia Ahern

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

French actress Isabelle Huppert is renowned for her portrayal of dark, complex characters. She's also been hailed by many as one of the greatest actors of modern cinema. Since the 1970, she's starred in more than 120 films, including The Lacemaker, The Piano Teacher, and Elle for which she was Oscar nominated. She joins Nuala to discuss her latest role in a new comedic film The Crime is Mine, directed by François Ozon.

From today NHS staff in England will be able to whisteblow on colleagues for sexual harassment, as part of plans to improve safety for staff across the health service. Almost three-quarters (74%) of NHS England staff are female and in this year's NHS Staff Survey, almost 58,000 staff said they'd been the victim of assault, touching, sexualised or inappropriate conversation or jokes from their colleagues. To discuss the plans Nuala speaks to reporter, Melanie Abbott and Dr Chelcie Jewitt co-founder of Surviving in Scrubs set up to raise awareness of the sexist and misogynistic culture within health care.

New podcast The Kill List follows a group of journalists who discovered a page on the dark web detailing requests to have people killed, with women most likely to be the ones targetted. The investigation led to a major international police operation over four years and, at the heart of it are the real people whose lives were seemingly at huge risk. Nuala is joined by the programme's producer Caroline Thornham and Jennifer whose former husband posted a 'hit' for her on this website.

Cecelia Ahern is the bestselling author of an incredible twenty books. She first found success at a remarkably young age. She was only 21 when her novel PS I Love You became an international bestseller and then a Hollywood film. She tells Nuala McGovern how Celtic mythology and a return to nature inspired her latest novel.

Presented by Nuala McGovern Producer: Louise Corley

Transcript

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0:00.0

Was Amber Lynn really a wicked queen?

0:04.4

People feared women who were smart.

0:06.8

M flay girl.

0:08.0

Exactly.

0:09.0

What about resputing?

0:10.4

A miraculous mystic or a die-hard deviant. I think there's some bad stuff in there. I do weirdly respect him.

0:17.0

On evil genius, we are the judges of that.

0:20.0

Join me, Russell Kane and a host of comedians as we put more historical legends under scrutiny to find out if they're evil or genius.

0:32.0

Evil genius listen on BBC sounds. Evil Genius.

0:33.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

Hello, this is Nula McGovran and you're listening to the Women's Hour podcast.

0:40.0

Hello and welcome.

0:42.0

Well, today, the legendary French actor Isabel Ubert speaks to me about

0:46.9

her latest film The Crime is Mine, but also on why she doesn't feel the need to

0:51.7

rehearse before filming. That's coming up. We also have Cecilia,

0:55.2

her in this hour, on her new book, Her 20th, it's called Into the Storm, and it's a gripping

1:00.2

tale with a backdrop that includes her protagonist, Enya, struggling as she

1:04.6

approaches the age her mother was when she died. Enya was just a girl at the time.

1:10.3

Now many of you may have experienced or will experience this, a time when those who lost a parent too early in life arrive at the age that their parent was when they died.

1:21.0

Reaching your parents' death age, as it has been called,

1:24.8

can be profound, it can be liberating,

1:26.9

it can be a catalyst for change.

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