Samantha Womack as the White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

Woman's Hour

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4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

After an eight month UK tour the children’s classic, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe comes to London's West End with Samantha Womack - best known for playing Ronnie in Eastenders - taking on the role of the White Witch. Following last night's first TV debate Emma's joined by two women who will have a vote but have yet to decide whether to back the former chancellor Rishi Sunak or the foreign secretary Liz Truss. Sally Ann Marks is the chairman of the Maidstone and Weald Conservative Association and Lizzie Hacking is Deputy Chairman of the Hastings and Rye Conservative Association. If I said the phrase ‘girly drink’ to you, what image would it conjure up? A sweet cocktail, a fizzy wine? Or would you challenge the very notion that some drinks are for women and others for men? To discuss the history of women’s consumption of alcohol and their involvement in making it, Emma is joined by the historian and writer Mallory O'Meara, whose new book is called Girly Drinks – A World History of Women and Alcohol and Melissa Cole, beer writer and author of The Ultimate Book of Craft Beer. Plus as wedding season is upon us - some people will spend thousands on their special day. However Nell Frizzell, an author and journalist whose new novel is called Square One, had a different approach. How surprised was she that when she tweeted that she'd spent just four pounds on the fabric for her dress and her shoes cost one pound went viral. And the woman now campaigning for rights for women to get time off work after a miscarriage after losing three babies herself.. Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.0	Big Night tonight for England's lionesses on the football pitch.
0:13.2	If that's your thing, it's many millions of people's things.
0:15.6	It seems at the moment the semi-finals can they roar into the final round.
0:20.2	Good luck to them.
0:21.4	Big Night last night for another woman, Liz Truss, hoping to be this country's third female
0:26.2	prime minister and the third conservative woman leader at that.
0:30.3	She and Rishi Sunak squared up to one another.
0:32.9	Did you watch it?
0:34.0	Do you care?
0:35.0	If you did, how do you think they fared?
0:37.3	A snap pole of conservative voters showed 47% thought Truss gave the best performance with
0:43.3	38% for Sunak.
0:45.6	Among the public, it was a dead heat.
0:48.1	But it's all about the conservative members and I'll be speaking to two of them shortly.
0:53.7	They have a vote, two women, who I think are still undecided, but perhaps some things
0:58.5	happened even in the last five minutes that may have swayed them one way or the other.
1:03.2	But who took it for you?
1:04.9	Text me here at Woman's Hour on 84844.
1:07.9	Tets will be charged to your standard message rate on social media or at BBC Woman's Hour
1:12.4	or you can email me your take through the Woman's Hour website.
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