Weekend Woman’s Hour: Helena Bonham Carter on ‘Nolly’, Sophie Duker, Happy Valley & kinship care, Emily Atack’

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Helena Bonham Carter tells us about playing Noele Gordon, "the Queen of the midlands", in new ITV drama 'Nolly' written by Russell T Davies. The actress starred in the hugely popular TV soap Crossroads for 18 years until she was sacked very suddenly in 1981. The TV drama Happy Valley has captured the public’s imagination with the final episode of the final series airing this Sunday. We hear from one listener who contacted Woman’s Hour about how as a kinship carer she has felt “heard” by the drama and Anita also speaks to Dr Lucy Peake the chief executive of Kinship – the UK’s largest charity for kinship carers. We speak to actor and comic, Emily Atack who is standing up against the men who cyber-flash her daily. Having received unsolicited, unwanted, abusive messages, dick pics and crude images for years she has made a documentary “Emily Atack: Asking for it?” for BBC 2. It’s 20 years in England since the repeal of section 28 – a law that came in from 1988 to 2003 to ban the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in UK schools. Professor Catherine Lee of Anglia Ruskin University is a lesbian and taught in schools for every year of section 28. We discuss how this law affected gay or lesbian teachers and students. Women are able to recall details of sexual assault and rape with accuracy, even if they have drunk – moderate amounts of alcohol, according to a new study from the University of Birmingham. Heather Flowe, Professor of Psychology who led the study tells us about its significance. The comedian Sophie Duker is on a mission to reclaim the term 'hag' in her new UK stand-up tour of the same name. She tells us about growing up with ‘the princess myth’, embracing ageing and our sexuality Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Surya Elango Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.7	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. I'm Anita Rani. This is the place you'll
0:09.6	get a carefully curated lineup of the best interviews from over the week, all in one
0:14.5	place. So pop the kettle on, put your feet up and stick with me for the next hour.
0:19.4	We've got a star-studded lineup for you this week, the actor and comic Emily A.Tac
0:24.1	on tackling digital sexual harassment. We leave our Princess Era and enter our villain
0:29.2	era with the comedian Sophie Juka. And if you're anything like me, you'll be gluteous
0:33.3	seat on Sunday night watching the last installment of Happy Valley. Excuse me, whilst a
0:38.1	wipe a tear. Well, we hear from one listener about how as a kinship carer, she has felt
0:43.4	heard from the drama. We also hear one teacher's personal story on 20 years since the repeal
0:49.4	of section 28 in England. And have we made a step towards challenging courtroom perceptions
0:55.1	of women? That's what one study from the University of Birmingham says has happened. But
0:59.9	first, we're going to stay in the Midlands. Helena Bonham Carter is one of our best known
1:05.3	actors. She's played everyone from royalty, Princess Margaret in the Crown and Elizabeth,
1:10.5	the Queen Mother in the King's Speech, to Bellatrix Lestrain, surely one of the best villains
1:15.3	in the Harry Potter films. And more recently, she's a No La Holmes' formidable mother,
1:19.9	Hugh Doria in the Netflix films with Millie Bobby Brown. She's now taking on a very different
1:25.6	role, the Queen of the Midlands, Noel Gordon, or Nolly, as she was known to her friends. Nolly
1:31.0	starred in the hugely popular TV soap Crossroads in the 60s and 70s. In the new three-part
1:37.2	drama on ITV written by Russell T. Davis, Nolly is shown reeling from the news that her
1:42.0	contract has not been renewed after 18 years. Here she is giving a press conference.
1:47.6	No, I wasn't just an actress. I was staff. I was the spine of ATV and the heart and the
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