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Woman's Hour

Ladies of Letters with Tessa Peake-Jones and Gwyneth Strong; Caroline Nokes MP on Angela Rayner

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Only Fools and Horses stars Tessa Peake-Jones and Gwyneth Strong will perform together in a touring stage adaptation of Ladies of Letters. The pair famously played Raquel and Cassandra - the wives of Del Boy and Rodney. They join Emma to discuss the stage show, working together again, and of course, the iconic sitcom. The Prime Minister has been in touch with the Labour Deputy leader, Angela Rayner -- to make it clear he regards claims about her reported in yesterday's Mail on Sunday as misogynistic. The paper said some Tory MPs had suggested she tried to distract the Prime Minister in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. Emma gets the reaction to the story of Conservative MP and Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Caroline Nokes, Today the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System publishes a report on women’s health and well-being in prison. Co-chair of the group, Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price talks exclusively to Woman’s Hour about the steps needed to improve to the health of women offenders, and prevent increasingly high levels of self-harm. Why despite many reports over the last fifteen years are these needs still not being met? How has the pandemic impacted the prevalence of child sexual abuse imagery online? Emma discusses the findings of the upcoming Internet Watch Foundation annual report with BBC Look East reporter Jon Ironmonger, who has been given exclusive access before its publication on Tuesday. In our series Threads we have been finding out the stories behind the items of clothing that women can't bear to part with. Today. Lisa on a black and white checked jacket which her Mum bought for her first trip abroad in 1967 and which Lisa commandeered years later for a job in an upmarket department store.

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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

0:10.0

Hello, good morning.

0:11.0

It's lovely to be back with you after a few days off, and it's good to know that having

0:15.1

legs as a woman at work is news.

0:18.2

Or rather, in the case of Deputy Labour leader Angela Reiner, caused for comparisons with

0:22.2

Sharon Stone in the infamous scene in basic instincts where she crosses and uncrosses her

0:26.6

legs without any knickers on.

0:29.0

If you haven't got to clear about what I'm going on about, let me enlighten you or not,

0:33.4

how women are perceived to behave and dress in Parliament made headlines yesterday when

0:38.3

unnamed Conservative MPs briefed the mail on Sunday's political editor Glen Owen, claiming

0:43.7

Angela Reiner likes to distract the Prime Minister when he's at the dispatch box by deploying

0:48.8

a fully clothed parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's move.

0:53.6

Angela Reiner said she knows she cannot compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training,

0:59.8

but she talking about Angela Reiner has other skills which he lacks, claiming she had admitted

1:04.8

as much when enjoying drinks with those unnamed MPs on the Commons terrace.

1:09.8

Charming Angela Reiner has denied the claims tweeting that such briefings were perverted

1:15.3

smears.

1:16.3

I should say we invited her on this morning, but she was unable to join us.

1:19.9

Who we can hear from is Caroline Noakes, the Conservative MP and Chair of the Cross Party

1:25.1

Women and Equality's Parliamentary Committee, who, speaking to me just before, I came on

1:29.9

her, says she buys trousers for work deliberately and skirts that are of a particular length

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