Jodie Whittaker, Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Actor Jodie Whittaker joins Woman’s Hour to talk about her role in a new Australian six part drama called One Night. Shot in New South Wales the story unfolds around three women from a coastal community whose reunion after many years apart is intensified by the publishing of a novel based on their lives. The central theme being the rape of Jodie’s character Tess twenty years previously and the impact its had on all their lives. Emma Barnett will be asking her about some of her other hard hitting roles post Doctor Who.
Amanda Spielman is coming to the end of an unprecedented seven year tenure at the helm of Ofsted. This year the organisation has come under intense scrutiny over its inspection regime and in particular the use of single-phrase judgments of schools, and the potential mental health impacts of those on school leaders and teachers, with many in the profession arguing that the current system is now unfit for purpose, and requires a complete overhaul. On the day Ofsted’s annual report is released, Amanda Spielman joins Emma Barnett for her only BBC interview.
The politician Margot Wallström introduced the concept of a feminist foreign policy to the world in 2014 when she became foreign secretary of Sweden. During her tenure she publicly recognised the state of Palestine, endorsed a United Nations ban on nuclear weapons and made no secret of her dislike for President Trump. Since then more than a dozen governments have announced their commitment to a feminist foreign policy, but what does it actually mean? Emma Barnett talks to Margot Wallström and to the German activist and author Kristina Lunz who has just written the Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce
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| 0:43.8 | It is the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who today, so who better to have on the program than the first |
| 0:48.6 | female time lord Jody Whitaker? |
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| 0:57.2 | Another woman on the programme today in search of the next chapter is England's |
| 1:01.0 | outgoing chief inspector of schools, Amanda Spielberg, who's coming to the end of her tenure at the helm of Ofsted. |
| 1:07.0 | This year the Education Watchdog has come under intense scrutiny over its inspection regime, |
| 1:12.0 | and in particular, the use of single phrase |
| 1:14.5 | judgments of schools things like outstanding or good but who is |
| 1:19.2 | offstead for have you used it do you read reports? Have you relied upon them to make the |
| 1:24.3 | school choices for those in your life if you've had that responsibility? |
| 1:27.6 | How should we, even if you haven't had that responsibility, I'm sure you'll have a |
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