Mikey Madison, Jojo Moyes, Inside the RAF

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Oscar-nominated actress Mikey Madison joins Clare McDonnell in the Woman’s Hour studio. She speaks about playing the title role in Anora, a film about a sex worker in New York. Mikey spent months embedded in a strip club to fully immerse herself in the world. The film is nominated for six Academy Awards as well as BAFTAs and Golden Globes – we speak to Mikey about how she’s finding receiving such attention so early in her career.

The government have announced £13 million of funding for a national centre to tackle violence against women and girls. How will it work, and what difference might it make? Clare speaks to BBC Senior UK Correspondent Sima Kotecha and National Police Chief's Council lead for violence against women and girls Maggie Blyth.

Top Guns: Inside the RAF is a Channel 4 documentary that gives viewers a rare view of RAF operations both in the air and on the ground. One of the women featured in the new series is Chief of Staff Jenni, who was recently stationed at an airbase in Romania. She joins Clare to tell us more about being a woman in the RAF and her experiences.

Jojo Moyes is the bestselling author of 17 novels, including the smash hit Me Before You which was adapted into a Hollywood film. Her new novel We All Live Here tells the story of Lila, a woman dealing with divorce, teenage children and duelling fathers. Jojo joins Clare in the studio to tell us about this ultimate sandwich situation.

Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Lottie Garton

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history
0:05.5	join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet
0:11.2	Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.
0:15.3	We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,
0:19.8	there's people can't get on the housing ladder.
0:21.5	This sounds familiar. And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement. I love the clothes. I love
0:26.5	the vibe. Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it. You're dead to me.
0:31.3	Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds Music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.6	Hello, this is Claire Macdonnell and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:41.9	Hello, this is Claire Macdonnell and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.
0:49.6	Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour on the program today, a brilliant young actor enjoying huge Oscar buzz right now.
0:55.1	Mikey Madison is nominated for Best Actress in her lead role in the film, Onora.
0:59.2	It's a tour de force performance and Mikey will join me shortly.
1:09.6	What is it like to be a woman with a five-year-old daughter sent on deployment for five months at a time with the RAF at a time of increasing global insecurity?
1:16.0	Well, Jenny joins me from the new Channel 4 series Top Guns Inside the RAF to tell us more.
1:20.9	And also, the best-selling author, Jojo Moyes, will be in the Woman's Our Studio to talk to us about her brilliant new novel, We All Live Here.
1:25.2	Its central character, Lila, is living in a multi-generational household.
1:31.5	Kids, grandparents, you get the picture. So tell me what is your experience of being in that
1:37.6	sandwiched generation, caught between children and parents, looking after both, but rarely yourself.
1:45.0	Tell me the highs and lows and maybe even where you hide when it all gets too much.
1:51.1	You can text the program.
1:52.2	The number is 84844.
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