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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Grease stars Olivia Moore & Jocasta Almgill, Female Bouncers & the Power of Silence

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As the nation celebrates the Queen’s 70 year reign this jubilee weekend we ask what impact will the changes to primogeniture mean for future British monarchs? We hear from five historians, Alison Weir, Lady Antonia Fraser, Jung Chang, Tracey Borman and Kate Williams. Author Julie Myerson’s new book is Nonfiction, a novel about a couple struggling with a daughter who is addicted to heroin. It's partly inspired by the experience of her own son's drug addiction. Julie joins Andrea Catherwood to talk about addiction, maternal love and the ethics of novel writing. Grease IS the word! We meet actors Olivia Moore and Jocasta Almgill, who are taking on the roles of Sandy and Rizzo in a new production of one of the best-loved musicals of all time. The Women’s Prize for Fiction has launched a campaign to encourage more men to read novels by women. Research, conducted for Mary Ann Sieghart’s The Authority Gap, found that of the top 10 bestselling female fiction authors, including Austen, Atwood and Agatha Christie, only 19% of their readers are men. We hear from Kate Mosse a best-selling novelist, playwright and founder director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. What’s it like to be a female bouncer? With the industry saying staff shortages are impacting their ability to keep people safe, they are making plans to hire more women. Michael Kill is CEO of the Night Time Industries Association and Carla Leigh is a Door Supervisor and is setting up her own security business focusing on getting women in to the industry. Tahmima Anam is an anthropologist and a novelist. She's a big fan of silence and believes it can be harnessed to challenge sexism and expose bad behaviour. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Karen Dalziel PHOTO CREDIT: Manuel Harlan

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.4

Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour.

0:09.2

On today's program, the author, Judy Morrison, on her latest novel, looking at the issue of

0:13.2

maternal love in the face of teenage addiction.

0:17.3

We have stars of the latest theatre version of the musical Greece, they perform, and we

0:22.0

discuss the power of silence.

0:24.4

I would hold silence instead of trying to fill a silence.

0:27.7

In those let's say, a sexist joke, I didn't feel like I had to laugh, and I didn't feel

0:32.8

like I had to protest, I could just be completely silent, and maybe the other person would hear

0:39.3

what they were actually saying.

0:41.6

And have you ever considered being a bouncer or door supervisor as they're actually called?

0:47.1

We look at why the world of door supervisors need women like you.

0:51.3

The women are happy that they've got me, so that they can come to me.

0:55.8

I'm like, they're second eyes because I see a lot of people, they may be getting hit on,

1:02.4

and they're not feeling it, they may be a bit drunk, they're very vulnerable.

1:08.0

But first, the queen is celebrating 70 years on the throne this Jubilee weekend.

1:13.6

According to our reckoning, she's only the 16th Platinum Monarch in history to reach

1:17.8

this milestone, and it's the first woman to do so.

1:21.3

Yesterday, Initia Rani looked at some of the other great queens in history, but when

1:25.8

Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, she did so only because of the lack of

1:31.9

a male heir.

1:33.5

Had there been one?

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