Vicky McClure, Mean Girls, Women’s Health Strategy update
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Vicky McClure is back on our screens as explosives expert Lana Washington in a new series of Trigger Point. Well known for her stand-out roles in Line of Duty and This is England, Vicky also set up the Dementia Choir, and recently received a MBE for services to drama and charity.
The classic teen drama film Mean Girls has been remade as a musical film and it opens in the UK today. Author Holly Bourne, who writes young adult fiction, and film critic Christina Newland discuss its enduring themes.
2024 will be the biggest year ever for democracy as more than four billion people across the world go to the polls. To mark this historic milestone, the FT has launched Democracy, 2024, a short film series to examine what democracy will look like in the year ahead. Anita Rani talks to FT editor Roula Khalaf and the comedian Aditi Mittal, who has contributed to the series.
Dame Professor Lesley Regan, the Women’s Health Ambassador for England, gives an update on the progress of the Government’s Women's Health Strategy.
And the latest on the situation for women and girls in Afghanistan with BBC journalist Zarghuna Kargar.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Emma Harth
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Want to learn something new? If you're looking for tactical deep dives and mind game strategies, |
| 0:07.0 | then you'll love the traitors, uncloaked. |
| 0:09.0 | I know it's a game deception, but it's a game of trust. You have to get people to trust you very quickly. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Ed Gamble. |
| 0:16.4 | Join me as we discuss all the latest drama from the Traiters castle, with exclusive access |
| 0:20.8 | to the vanished and murdered contestants. |
| 0:22.8 | I would have never expected him at all. |
| 0:25.8 | The traitors uncloked. |
| 0:27.4 | Listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.6 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | We have rolled out the red carpet and made sure the tea is brewed to perfection today |
| 0:44.9 | because I'm going to be joined by one of this nation's finest acting talent. |
| 0:49.6 | Cannot wait to chat to Vicky McClure. |
| 0:52.4 | Then Mean Girls the movie is back. wait to version will be in cinemas, once again exploring the pain of being a teenage |
| 1:04.1 | girl and either being in or out of the gang. This morning I would like to hear |
| 1:08.9 | from you about your own experience. Were you in a clique at school? Were you on the inside? Part of the it crowd? |
| 1:15.0 | Or were you very much on the outside? Rejected or worse, felt judged. |
| 1:19.0 | Has the pain of the rejection ever left you? I don't think it really does. |
| 1:22.0 | Maybe you were the mean girl. If you |
| 1:24.6 | want to unburden yourself and fess up please feel free you can remain anonymous. Have things |
| 1:28.8 | changed for your own children or were the teenage cliques still a reality for them? How did you manage? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.