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The Guilty Feminist

The Guilty Feminist Culture Club: Call Jane with Jessica Regan and Wunmi Mosaku

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy, Feminism

4.812.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Guilty Feminist Culture Club: Call Jane with Jessica Regan and Wunmi Mosaku

Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Jessica Regan with special guest Wunmi Mosaku

Recorded 19-20 November via Squadcast. Released 30 November 2022.

The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon.

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0:00.0

Today's show is sponsored by the new film Call Jane.

0:25.6

Hello, Guilty feminist and welcome to this culture club episode,

0:28.5

looking at the new film on Prime Video Call Jane.

0:32.1

Directed by Phyllis Nage, it's based on the true story of the Jane collective

0:36.2

who helped to provide safe abortion services in Chicago in the 1960s and the 1970s,

0:42.1

a time when abortions were illegal in most parts of the United States.

0:46.0

Later you'll hear me and Jessica Regan from the Best Pick podcast talking about the film,

0:49.7

but first I caught up with one of the stars, will we miss out on?

0:52.8

Thank you. We're delighted to be joined on this guilty feminist culture rep by one of the stars

0:58.5

of Call Jane. You will know her from Luther, Loki and his house for which she won.

1:04.2

A biffa, she's also got a baffer and I know her because I actually taught her improvisation

1:11.8

at the router. Please welcome Wamy Masaku.

1:16.3

Wamy, I found this film very informative. I had no idea that women in the 60s and 70s in America

1:29.4

were running their own underground abortion rings and actually learning how to perform abortions.

1:35.2

What I had no idea of is that they did this right up until Rovers' Wade.

1:40.6

I found the whole thing very moving partly because they fought so hard for something

1:48.6

that has so recently been overturned. I found it very point and I cried quite a lot at the idea

1:55.6

of all these women, who many of whom will still be alive, going everything we fought for

2:01.1

has been whipped away and do we have time to fight for it again?

2:04.8

Will we see Rovers' Wade being reinstated under a new name?

2:13.6

What drew you to the script in the first place, Wamy?

2:18.5

I mean, it was that. I didn't know this happened. I didn't know about these women.

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