Weekend Woman’s Hour: Hunger strike, Anna Maxwell Martin, US Election and women, Joeli Brearley, Mary McCall Jr

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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British-Egyptian activist and Maths professor Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for the past month to protest her son Alaa’s incarceration in Egypt. He is the country’s most high profile political prisoner. Laila and her daughter Sanaa – who has faced arrest and imprisonment herself – joined Anita Rani to talk about why they won’t stop fighting for Alaa’s release.

The BAFTA-winning actress Anna Maxwell Martin stars as Delia in the new ITV series Until I Kill You. It tells the true story of Delia Balmer, who was the girlfriend of serial killer John Sweeney. Anna joined Nuala McGovern to talk about why she wanted to tell Delia’s story, as well as her personal experiences of grief and struggles with the special educational needs system.

The United States goes to the polls next week and presidential candidates are campaigning furiously, with the two frontrunners being the Democratic nominee and current Vice President, Kamala Harris and the Republican nominee and former President, Donald Trump. As a programme, we’re taking a look at whether there’s such a thing as the ‘the woman’s vote'. How are different groups of women likely to vote and why? Nuala spoke to Kathy Frankovic, Consultant to YouGov America and former director of surveys for CBS News and Debbie Walsh, Director of the Centre for Women and American Politics at Rutgers University.

Sacked from her job by voicemail the day after she informed her employer she was pregnant Joeli Brearley set up Pregnant Then Screwed to end pregnancy and maternity discrimination. The charity has helped to influence new flexible working and redundancy protection laws, providing advice to hundreds of thousands of women when they face discrimination and challenging employers and government in high profile cases. After ten years Joeli is stepping down as CEO. She joined Nuala in the Woman's Hour studio.

Film historian Jennifer Smyth talked to Nuala about the life and legacy of the pioneering American screenwriter, Mary McCall Jr. The first woman president of the Screen Writers Guild in 1942, Mary was a key negotiator ensuring better rights and wages for all screenwriters in the film industry. But after years of standing up to male studio heads, she would be blacklisted and go from being one of the biggest earners in Hollywood to living on nickels and dimes.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	2024 presidential election ahead.
0:04.7	Join America on the road to the U.S. election.
0:07.6	It's the BBC podcast full of lively chats about politics and social media investigations.
0:13.1	Expert insights this way.
0:15.2	We'll guide you through all the key moments as the United States chooses which direction to go in next.
0:21.4	Final destination, the White House.
0:24.1	Navigate your way to Election Day and beyond.
0:26.8	America.
0:27.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:30.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.1	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me, Anita Rani.
0:43.8	In the next hour.
0:45.4	Motherland and Line of Duty actress Anna Maxwell Martin on her new true crime drama
0:50.7	Until I Kill You, in which she plays Delia Barma, one of the girlfriends of
0:55.2	John Sweeney, a serial killer who was convicted of killing two women, both his former girlfriends
1:00.8	and attacking Delia.
1:03.0	I hope we've achieved a story which is not just about the victimisation of a female, as
1:09.0	Delia likes to call herself, but what it looks like to be a victim when you're
1:15.0	not cookie cutter, when you don't tow the party line, when you're not considered to be a conventional
1:21.3	person or what we expect, how we expect a victim should present themselves. Anna Maxwell Martin coming up.
1:29.1	Also, Jolie Brearley, who's stepping down as CEO of Pregnant then screwed.
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