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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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For over 40 years, Helena Bonham Carter has delighted us with roles including Lucy Honeychurch in Room with a View, Princess Margaret in The Crown and Harry Potter's much-loved villain, Bellatrix Lestrange. She joined Nuala McGovern to discuss her latest role in new film, Four Letters of Love, based on the bestselling book of the same name.
Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions. The method, pioneered by UK scientists, combines the egg and sperm from a mum and dad with a second egg from a donor woman. The technique has been legal in the UK for a decade but this is the first proof it is leading to children born free of incurable mitochondrial disease, which is normally passed from mother to child. Anita Rani was joined by Kat Kitto who has two daughters, one of whom has mitochondrial disease, and Louise Hyslop, consultant embryologist at the Newcastle Fertility Centre to discuss.
A new report by London’s Victims’ Commissioner, Claire Waxman, says that victims are being forced to quit the criminal justice system in huge numbers amid record court delays and traumatic process. She joined Nuala to explain why they are saying 'there is a near total failure in seeing offenders brought to justice', especially when it comes to female victims of violence.
In the second part of our series about women and gaming, we find out more about the impact gaming can have on women’s lives. Nuala heads to the Virgin Media Gamepad at the O2 to meet some of the women from the Black Girl Gamers community, who have over 10,000 members around the world.
The bestselling author Louise Candlish joined Anita to talk about her latest novel - A Neighbour's Guide to Murder - which explores the practice of sex for rent and a trial by social media.
The American jazz singer Samara Joy has five Grammy awards to her name and is quickly gaining superstar status in the jazz world. She is making her debut at the BBC Proms tonight, where she will be backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, in a special tribute to the Great American Songbook. The Prom will be also be live on Radio 3, on BBC Four and iPlayer.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Deiniol Buxton
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0:00.0 | Get closer to the action with live commentary from the world's greatest sporting events on BBC Sounds. |
0:06.0 | It is all over! |
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0:10.0 | Including cricket Super League, Women's Euro's 2025, Wimbledon, Formula One and much more. |
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0:45.5 | for this podcast. |
0:47.3 | Hello and welcome. |
0:49.1 | Coming up, some highlights from the week just gone. |
0:51.7 | Helena Bonham Carter on her new film, Four Letters of Love, based on the best-selling novel |
0:56.8 | set in 1970s Ireland. |
0:59.6 | London's Independent Victims Commissioner Claire Waxman on her new report, which cites |
1:04.3 | a near total failure in seeing offenders brought to justice. |
1:08.5 | We look at how this impacts women and girls. |
1:11.7 | Women and gaming will hear from the group Black Girl gamers on why gaming is such an important part of |
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