Tracy-Ann Oberman plays Katherine Hepburn on NYE on R4
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’ was a famous 1967 film about an inter-racial marriage in the US. Filmed against the backdrop of race riots that took place the same year, it starred Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracey, Katherine Hepburn and Katherine Houghton. Actor, Tracy-Ann Oberman has written a play called ‘That Dinner of 67’ looking at what happened during the making of the film. She talks to Andrea Catherwood about playing the iconic Ms Hepburn.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has deemed an Instagram campaign by online shopping firm Klarna, that ran in April and May, as ‘irresponsible’ for encouraging shoppers to use their ‘buy now, pay later’ service to cheer themselves up during the pandemic. The Swedish company has over 10 million customers in the UK, with an average age of 33. Its model allows payments to be staggered for products, with no fees or interest. Consequently, companies with similar models to Klarna, do not have to abide by Financial Conduct Authority rules, and thus customers are not protected and risk getting into debt. The Labour MP Stella Creasy is spearheading a campaign to make an amendment to the Financial Services Bill to better protect consumers.
In her book ‘The Little Library Christmas’, Australian-born food writer Kate Young guides you through the Christmas period with festive food, edible gifts, reading recommendations and suggestions for Christmas films. She joins Andrea to talk about how to Cook the Perfect Jansson’s Temptation – a Swedish dish that she cooks every year as one of her Christmas rituals.
The stereotypical Christmas scene is familiar - a big house, warm fireplace, and plenty of space for Father Christmas to leave the presents. But that's not the reality for most children. Which is why Hollie McNish wrote her poem 'You do not need a chimney', to reassure children living in flats and hostels that St Nick will still be able to get to them. Hollie joins us to read the poem, along with Sue Whitfield, who's had help from Homestart - the charity that will benefit from sales of the poem.
Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Kirsty Starkey
Interviewed Guest: Tracy-Ann Oberman Interviewed Guest: Stella Creasy Interviewed Guest: Kate Young Interviewed Guest: Holly McNish Interviewed Guest: Sue Whitfield Photographer: Joseph Sinclair
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| 0:41.0 | Hello and welcome to the Women's Hour Podcast on podcasts. on what I suspect is, to put it mildly, one of the strangest Christmas Eve's we've ever experienced. |
| 0:56.0 | Many of us are preparing for a different Christmas from the one that we might normally have, |
| 1:00.0 | or even the one that we were planning just a week ago. |
| 1:03.8 | With all that in mind we will very gently try to inject some festive spirit. |
| 1:09.0 | We'll be cooking the perfect Janssen's temptation. |
| 1:11.9 | It's a dish that I'd never even heard of until a few days ago and now it |
| 1:14.5 | seems to be everywhere. It's the comfort food of Christmas 2020 and we are all in need of that. |
| 1:21.8 | And if you've got little ones who are concerned that Santa Claus might not |
| 1:24.8 | know where they are this year, well Holly McNich will be joining me and she will read her poem, |
| 1:30.1 | you do not need a chimney. I think you can see where we're going with that. |
| 1:34.0 | And if you've been buying presents online or treating yourself, you may have used buy now pay later schemes like |
| 1:40.2 | Klana. They're really big business and they're growing fast. |
| 1:43.4 | Well, MP Stella Crese will be here to tell us why she has got some concerns over the way |
| 1:48.8 | they operate. |
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