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🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Felicity Jones has been nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for her role in The Brutalist, in which she plays Erzsébet, a Hungarian journalist who emigrates to the US in the late 1950s to join her architect husband. She joined Anita Rani to discuss her portrayal of this complex character and the other memorable roles she’s taken on, from Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Jane Wilde Hawking.
Zla Mavka is a non-violent all-female Ukrainian resistance group, fighting against Russian occupation. It spreads newsletters and shares experiences aiming to support others. Anita was joined by the Guardian's chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins, who has spoken to some of the members and Tetyana Filevska, the curator at the Ukrainian Institute, to find out more.
Kate Fagan has been a US basketball player, an ESPN journalist and has written three non-fiction books. She joined Datshiane Navanayagam to discuss her first novel, The Three Lives of Cate Kay.
More people in their late 20s are still living with their parents – it's up by more than a third in nearly two decades according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Men are also more likely than women to stay in the family home, with 23% of 25-34 year old men living with their parents compared to 15% of women the same age. Anita spoke to writer and counsellor Lucy Cavendish who has two adult sons living at home, and Associate Professor and family therapist Dr Hannah Sherbersky.
It has been reported that USA women's footballer Naomi Girma has agreed terms to join Chelsea FC for a world record transfer fee of £900,000 or $1.1 million. Anita was joined by Tom Garry, Women’s Football writer at The Guardian.
Elise Downing is known for running 5,000 miles self-supported around the British coast over the course of 10 months. She was not only the youngest person, but also the only female to have completed the challenge. Along the way she saw Britain at its wild and wonderful best. She has now written Walk Britain, packed with inspiring car-free ideas on how to get out and explore stunning locations – from the Cornish coast to the Yorkshire Dales and the Isle of Arran. She joined Datshiane to talk about some of the 90 different routes that can be completed on foot, all accessible by public transport.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Sarah Jane Griffiths
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0:40.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:50.0 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me, Anitaani. On the programme today, the actor Felicity Jones, |
0:57.3 | just Oscar nominated for her role in the incredibly powerful |
1:00.5 | The Brutalist will be here to tell me all about it. |
1:04.0 | The number of 25 to 34-year-olds still living with their parents |
1:08.1 | has gone up by more than a third in the last two decades. |
1:11.6 | And there are more boys than girls. But why is this? |
1:14.6 | They've got nice beds, they've got a relatively nice house, you know, the washing machine works, |
1:20.6 | and they're not having to take a lot of responsibility for that sort of day-to-day grind. |
1:26.6 | That means that I'm taking that responsibility. |
1:29.9 | That's the downside, as the mental-emotional load on us parents is carrying on a lot longer than |
1:35.6 | we probably thought it was going to. |
1:37.4 | Also, women leading multiple lives. You may feel you're one of them. |
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