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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Aimee Lou Wood, Wayne Couzens and Indecent Assault, Nne Nne Iwuji-Eme on African Queens, Nell Mescal

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Actor Aimee Lou Wood is best known for her role in Netflix’s Sex Education. Her character - also called Aimee - was at the heart of some of the most iconic storylines that came out of the first three seasons of the show. Now she’s taking to the stage as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End. She talks about performing in the show and her recent BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. The former police officer, Wayne Couzens, who raped and murdered Sarah Everard two years ago, has admitted three counts of indecent exposure. Now academics and criminologists are calling for a change in the way indecent exposure is seen – saying we need to stop the perception of it as a so-called ‘nuisance offence’ and take it more seriously. Jennifer Grant from the University of Portsmouth and the BBC’s Home Affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani discuss allegations against Wayne Couzens that go back to 2015. A new Netflix series from Executive Producer Jada Pinkett-Smith tells the stories of African Queens. The first focuses on Queen Njinga, a powerful woman who led Ndongo, modern day Angola, through the slave trade and invasions by the Portuguese. One of the writers and former British High Commissioner to Mozambique, Nne Nne Iwuji-Eme explains why it’s so important to hear her story. Woman's Hour is in the process of putting together our Power List for 2023 - this year focussed on finding 30 of the most powerful women in sport. But what about the power of sport itself? Hayley Compton and Jessica Morgan who say sport got them through very difficult times in their lives explain why. Coleen Greenwood spent almost two and a half years in a relationship with a man she knew as James Scott. He said he was a divorced firefighter who wanted to marry and go into business with her - but it was all based on a lie. Her story is the subject of a new BBC podcast series Love-Bombed with Vicki Pattison. Coleen talks about the impact the relationship had on her. She is joined by Chris Bentham, who investigated the case. Nell Mescal is a singer songwriter who writes Indie Folk songs. She’s a rising star whose featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and has been named as an artist to watch by NME. She performs her single ‘Graduating’ live in the studio. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:06.0

Hello and welcome Anita Rani here bringing you a quality selection of interviews from this week's Woman's Hour.

0:12.3

So put the kettle on, grab the biscuits and sit back.

0:16.0

One of the writers on Netflix's African Queens explains why Queen and Jinger's story is so important.

0:22.4

We hear from a woman who explains how exercise helped her during a difficult time.

0:27.0

That's how sport and exercise started because I had this baby bump and I had no baby.

0:33.8

So every time that I looked down at my body I was reminded of the fact that although I'd gone through this pregnancy

0:42.0

I didn't have a baby at the end of it and so I needed to do something to make my body better.

0:48.0

But first there's a brand new Sally at the Kit Kat Club. Amy Lou Wood is playing Sally Bowls in

0:54.0

Cabaret in London's West End. You may know her from Netflix's Sex Education. She won a BAFTA for her

1:00.0

performance as the character also called Amy, who's been at the heart of some of the most iconic storylines

1:05.6

in the first three seasons of the show. But now she's a triple threat, acting, singing and dancing in Cabaret.

1:12.7

The show is set in the Kit Kat Club in Berlin as the 1920s are drawing to a close.

1:17.7

The world is about to change and anything goes.

1:20.9

I started by asking Amy how it felt to be on stage.

1:24.5

Do you know what? It is so overwhelming in the best way. I have wanted to play this part since I was 10.

1:34.2

So getting to do it is kind of... It's almost... I'm really trying to stay in my body and stay present

1:43.4

because it's so... can feel so dreamlike and surreal. Which I think is kind of okay because

1:50.0

Cabaret is quite like that. It felt like stepping into a dream, coming to watch it.

1:54.3

Just the experience of entering the Kit Kat Club and what they've done to the theatre.

1:58.4

I mean it's all very dreamlike. So you've always wanted to be in Cabaret. What's it like being back on stage?

2:06.5

It's... I love being on stage and I love the catharsis and just being...

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