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Woman's Hour

The Cher Show with Oti Mabuse and Arlene Phillips, Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

With over 100 million record sales, an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, three Golden Globes and an award from The Council of Fashion Designers of America, very few artists have a catalogue that matches the iconic Cher. A new musical, touring the UK - “The Cher Show” - tells the story of the Goddess of Pop’s meteoric rise to fame. The director and choreographer behind the show are two Strictly Come Dancing legends - Arlene Phillips and Oti Mabuse. They both join Emma to discuss the new show and their own careers. In August 2018, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian-British academic travelled to Iran to attend a seminar and conduct academic research. It was her first visit to the country. At Tehran airport on her way back home to Australia, she was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Accused of espionage, she was imprisoned and later convicted and given a ten year sentence. She spent over two years in prison, half of it in solitary confinement. She was released in November 2020 as part of a prisoner exchange deal negotiated by the Australian government. She’s written about those 804 days, in a new book The Uncaged Sky, and speaks to Emma from Melbourne. The Chancellor Rishi Sunak, his wife Akshata Murty and their finances have been in the headlines for several days now. Emma gets the latest from the woman behind the story, Economics Editor for the Independent, Anna Isaac. Anna broke the news that Ms Murty was a 'non-domicile' resident - meaning she doesn't have to pay tax to the UK authorities on any income that she earns outside Britain, something that is entirely legal. 48 hours after the story broke last Wednesday, Ms Murty announced that she would pay UK taxes on her worldwide income. The actor Sienna Miller has said she took the step of freezing some eggs at 40, following the pressure she felt to have more children. Professor Imogen Goold has been looking into how women make decisions to delay fertility including in this way – and she questions the assumption often made in the media and in medicine that women are not properly informed, and make poor decisions about how long they can wait to have children. Imogen joins Emma to discuss, ahead of a lecture she is giving at Gresham College called Freezing Eggs and Delaying Fertility: Law, Ethics and Society, at 1pm on Monday 11 April. It can be viewed online for free. Professor Imogen Goold is Visiting Professor of Medical Law at Gresham College, and Professor of Medical Law at Oxford University.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.2

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

0:09.8

I think we need a hit of this.

0:11.0

Oh, do you believe in life at the light?

0:18.3

I can feel something inside me, say.

0:22.4

I really don't think it's strong enough now.

0:26.4

The reason I have for being allowed to play share this morning

0:29.1

before needs a reason, if you think I need a defence,

0:31.5

is the director and choreographers of the new show about her

0:35.0

are with me in the studio today, Arlene Phillips and O.T. Mabuse,

0:39.2

which gives me another brilliant excuse to ask you about dancing today.

0:43.4

Of course, both on, strictly come dancing at different times.

0:46.2

Now, neither of them are part of that,

0:47.9

but doing many other things, trying to entertain people,

0:50.5

bring a smile to people's faces,

0:52.0

and at the heart of that, is movement and dancing.

0:55.0

Do you do it? Where do you do it?

0:57.2

Or would you sit on your bottom on the sofa watching other people doing it,

0:59.9

wishing you were doing it?

1:01.3

Tell me about you and dance, your relationship to it,

1:05.0

how it works, what it gives to you,

1:06.9

what you'd like to do with it, and perhaps don't.

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