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Woman's Hour

Michelle Kholos Brooks, Monica McWilliams, Mandy Garner, Cecilia Floren, Sophie Willan

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

H*tler’s Tasters is a dark comedy about the young women who have the “honour” of being Adolf Hitler’s food tasters. The play explores the way girls navigate sexuality, friendship, patriotism, and poison during the Third Reich. Emma Barnett talks to its award winning playwright, Michelle Kholos Brooks After a record number of women are elected to Stormont we talk to Monica McWilliams an academic, peace activist, human rights defender and former politician who co-founded the Women’s Coalition political party in 1996 and was a signatory to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. A new survey by Working Wise has flagged that many working women are concerned about the gaps in work they've taken and what impact those gaps will have on their pension. The author of the research Mandy Garner tells us about her findings and we hear from Cecilia Floren who is worried about her pension. On Sunday, the Baftas saw Sophie Willan, the actress and creator of Alma’s Not Normal, take home an award for best female performance in comedy. The sitcom is based on Sophie’s own experience of growing up in care, and focuses on her relationship with the women in her family. Sophie dedicated her win to her grandmother, Denise Willan, who sadly passed away half-way through filming the show. She joins Emma to talk about their relationship and the importance of grandparents. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Giles Aspen Photo Credit: Hunter Canning

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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

0:10.2

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.4

Shortly you're going to hear from Monica McWilliams, one of the key women behind the

0:16.3

Good Friday Agreement, as the Prime Minister receives new legal advice regarding post-Brexit

0:21.6

arrangements in Northern Ireland.

0:23.9

But first, before we get to that, I wanted you to have a listen to something completely

0:28.1

different.

0:29.1

And the bathroom goes to Sophie Williams.

0:33.4

Me and my grandma, because she brought me up.

0:35.6

We went clubbing with my dog.

0:37.0

We went to our beef herf when she got divorced.

0:39.8

And she went to the coffeeed Alma, you know, in a two-piece sub-reprint.

0:44.5

She looked her ears and she went to the coffeeed Alma, and I joined the hotel drama club.

0:49.6

And that's where it all began.

0:50.8

That is what Sophie will in the actor and creator of BBC Two Comedy Almas Not Normal had to

0:56.1

say in her speech at the weekend at the BAFTAs as she won best female performance in comedy.

1:01.4

I'll be talking to her very shortly.

1:02.9

It's actually her second BAFTAs, she'll be just for coming on air.

1:05.8

She's put them next to each other and she's given them quite brilliant names, which

1:08.6

we'll get into.

1:09.6

But I wanted to ask you, she dedicated her win.

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