Rachel Weisz, Lewes FC, Adele Roberts Marathon Challenge

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Academy award-winner Rachel Weisz joins Anita Rani to talk about her new series Dead Ringers, a psycho-sexual thriller about identical twins who are gynaecologists and obstetricians. It is a new adaptation of the 1988 film starring Jeremy Irons, in which Rachel plays twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle. She explains why it was important to her to adapt the story with female leads, and the technical process in performing both characters and what it felt like to watch someone giving birth.

Anita is joined by Maggie Murphy, the CEO of Lewes Football Club. Maggie featured on our Power List highlighting 30 women working in sport in the UK. Maggie discusses why the club is so unique and how women’s football should grow.

The US Supreme Court has delayed its decision on the abortion pill Mifepristone - until midnight Friday. Allowing access to the drug which is used for more that half of all U.S. abortions. The Supreme Court was asked to look into the matter at the request of President Joe Biden’s Administration after two federal judges issued opposing rulings on its use. This is the most significant case since the Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion last year, by over turning the landmark 1973 Roe V Wade. But how much can we read into this delay? We ask associate Professor of American Literature and Politics at University of East Anglia Emma Long.

The Radio 1 DJ and presenter Adele Roberts joins Anita ahead of the London Marathon on Sunday. This is Adele's third marathon but her first since she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and she’s trying to break a World Record in the process!

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.2	Good morning, welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour.
0:13.6	I want you all to get involved in a major controversial issue this morning.
0:17.7	It's been causing division for decades, probably even hundreds of years, in cultures around
0:23.6	the world.
0:24.6	The subject I'm talking about is body hair.
0:27.9	Almost specifically, women's body hair.
0:30.5	The reason it's crawled back onto the agenda, beautiful and talented Hollywood star Rachel
0:35.1	McCadams has done a photo shoot specifically requesting minimal touch-ups and definitely
0:40.1	no air-brushing of her armpit hair.
0:43.3	She's an adult female and therefore, like most other adults, she has armpit hair and
0:48.3	it's there for all to see.
0:49.6	But what's the big deal?
0:51.0	It's only hair.
0:52.0	Or is it?
0:53.0	How do you feel about body hair?
0:54.6	Is there a generational divide in your household?
0:57.4	Are you as smooth as a dolphin but your daughter has chosen to let it all grow?
1:00.5	Is she furrier than the cat?
1:02.1	Or maybe it's the other way around?
1:03.7	Have you let your armpit hair grow but laser'd your pubic hair?
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