Weekend Woman's Hour - Holly Humberstone, #metoo & Imelda Staunton as the Queen
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We have music and chat from singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone who has been named as runner up of the BBC Sound of 2021.
Helen Lewis, staff writer at the Atlantic and Melissa Melewski lecturer in American politics at The University of Sussex discuss the role women played in this week’s violent protest when the Capitol building in Washington was stormed by Trump Supporters.
We hear from Hannah who has been ghosted by her mum.
We discuss the unintended consequences both positive and negative of the #metoo movement with Gudrun Young, a defence barrister and Sarah Green, Director of End Violence Against Women.
And we have a special message from Her Majesty the Queen and the actor Imelda Staunton tells us about her latest role playing the Queen on television.
Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Louise Corley
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Women's Hour. |
| 0:38.0 | In a moment we'll discuss the role women played in the scenes of violence at Capitol Hill in Washington this week. |
| 0:44.0 | We'll hear some of the unintended consequences of the Me Too movement, |
| 0:48.0 | including the ongoing issue of the rape myth. |
| 0:51.0 | So men making the question, oh I don't know if I can give you a hug now or you've |
| 0:56.0 | ruined kind of online dating with your accusations is about turning the question back to, oh it's |
| 1:01.5 | about me and what I can and can't do but actually |
| 1:04.2 | something much bigger is at stake. We'll hear what it's like to be ghosted by your |
| 1:08.8 | mom and Emmel de Staunton the latest actress to play The Queen on the Crown on her role at the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations. |
| 1:18.0 | I sang a song while a troop of Shetland ponies were doing a grand national in front of me so you know |
| 1:25.6 | Kylie sang to white stallions Shirley Batsy with these gorgeous great serious |
| 1:30.0 | and me with Shetland ponies. The world looked on in horror on Wednesday in what has been described as an act of domestic terrorism. |
| 1:40.0 | As thousands of President Trump's supporters ransacked Congress and stormed the Capitol |
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