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Woman's Hour

Three Sisters, Molly Case, Women's Football

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Three Sisters, Anton Chekov’s 1901 classic play, is on at The Almedia Theatre in London. It's about Olga, Masha and Irina who are frustrated with their small-town life especially after growing up for while in buzzing Moscow. When two glamorous military men arrive on the scene it all gets emotional and sexually charged. Other problems get in the way too and the sisters have to take on responsibilities. Jenni speaks to Patsy Ferran, Pearl Chanda and Ria Zmitrowicz who play the sisters about how this revival of the play still feels relevant to young women today. Molly Case is a young nurse. In 2013 she achieved national recognition for her poem ‘Nursing the Nation’ which she recited at the Royal College of Nursing Congress. She wrote it when she was a nursing student as a reaction to the criticism of the NHS at the time. That performance at the Congress has been viewed over 400,000 times on YouTube. She’s now written a book called How to Treat People – A Nurse at Work. Jenni talks to her about what inspired her to become a nurse and why she wants to champion their work. It's just 50 days to go until the biggest tournament in women’s football begins: the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It will be held in France. Today five players who've been shortlisted for the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year Award have been announced. Sarah Mulkerrins from the BBC World Service joins Jenni to discuss the growing popularity of women’s football and gives her own predictions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.2

Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the Thursday edition of The Woman's Our Podcast.

0:10.7

As Manchester United beat Aston Villa and game promotion to the Women's Super League,

0:15.4

the BBC announces the five players shortlisted as women's footballer of the year.

0:20.8

Who are they?

0:21.8

And how significant is it that they come from all over the world?

0:26.0

And Chekhov's three sisters, written in 1900, has an up-to-date adaptation at the

0:32.0

Almeida Theatre in North London.

0:34.5

The young women who play Olga Masha and Irina, join me to discuss what Chekhov has to say

0:40.3

to their generation.

0:43.4

In 2013, at the height of the scandal around failures at mid-staff at your hospital after

0:48.6

the Francis report was published, a young nurse got up at the Royal College of Nursing

0:53.2

Congress and spoke a poem she'd written called Nursing the Nation.

0:58.7

We've washed and shrouded people that we've never known, pinned flowers to the sheets and

1:02.9

told them they're still not alone, shown families to the faith from and watch them

1:07.6

mourn their dead, then got back to work, bathed patients, made beds.

1:13.2

Hindus, Muslims, Jews and Sikhs, Buddhist and Christians and just people off the street

1:18.2

we've cared for them all and we love what we do.

1:21.6

We don't want to meddle, we just want to show you so listen to us, hear us, God damn

1:26.8

roar, you say we're not doing enough, then we promise we'll do more.

1:33.0

Well Molly Case was given a standing ovation at the Congress, we only heard part of the

1:38.6

poem.

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