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🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Award-winning actor Fiona Shaw is best known for her roles in Killing Eve, Bad Sisters, Fleabag, True Detective: Night Country and even as Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter, among many other things. She’s now starring in a new film adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel, Hot Milk, playing Rose, who goes to Almería in Spain with her daughter, Sofia, played by Emma Mackey, to try to find a cure for Rose’s mysterious paralysis at an experimental clinic. Fiona joined Nuala McGovern to discuss it.
Jenny Evans was a young actress riding high on the success of her first feature film when she was sexually assaulted by someone who was in the public eye. When she later found the courage to report this crime to the police, details of what she had experienced were printed in a tabloid newspaper. Jenny decided to retrain as a journalist to try and figure out how this could have happened. She went on to help expose the abuses of power in the press and police that have become known as the 'phone-hacking scandal'. Nuala spoke to Jenny about her memoir Don't Let it Break You, Honey.
The film director Gurinder Chadha has released a trailer to celebrate this summer's cricket fixtures between England and India's women's teams. She joined Datshiane Navanayagam to discuss why she's chosen to put women's cricket under the spotlight and the legacy of her last hit film about women's sport, Bend It Like Beckham.
Amy Powney is the fashion designer best known for being the Creative Director at Mother of Pearl for 10 years until she left to set up her own label, Akyn, earlier this year. Amy’s mission to create a sustainable clothing line was explored in the documentary Fashion Reimagined which saw her trace clothes from field to runway and cemented her as an authority on this within the wider industry. Amy joined Kylie Pentelow in the Woman’s Hour studio.
The Women’s Euros started this week, with teams from both England and Wales taking part. The Lionesses won the Euros in 2022 and much was made of the number of openly lesbian players both in the England squad and across the other teams. In a new graphic novel called Florrie a football love story, Anna Trench tells the story of the ground breaking women footballers from the end of the First World War and highlights the pioneering lesbians players of the past. Anna joins Nuala in discussion along with Rachael Bullingham, Senior Lecturer of Sport and Exercise at the University of Gloucestershire.
Presenter: Datshiane Navanayagam Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Rebecca Myatt
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0:40.5 | Hello and welcome. |
0:41.9 | Coming up, some highlights from this week, the acclaimed actor Fiona Shaw of Killing Eve, |
0:47.6 | Bad Sisters and the Harry Potter franchise on her latest film, Hot Milk, which looks |
0:53.0 | at the mother-daughter carer-patient dynamic. |
0:56.3 | And do you know where the clothes we wear came from? |
0:59.6 | I don't mean which shop, but where the cotton was grown or the fabric was made. |
1:04.5 | The fashion designer Amy Powney has made it her mission to make us really think about sustainable clothing. |
1:11.7 | Also, journalist Jenny Evans, who writes about fighting back against a system that had harmed her |
1:17.3 | following sexual assault, including abuses of power in the press and the police. |
1:23.4 | And as the 2025 women's euros begin, a fictional graphic novel about women's football, |
1:29.6 | a love story to the women who played and fought for the right to belong on the pitch, |
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