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🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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A new Netflix series, Kaos is a modern, darkly comic retelling of Greek mythology that will perhaps have you seeing the gender politics of ancient Greece in a new light. Stage and film actor Janet McTeer stars as the Queen of the gods, Hera. Janet joins Anita to talk about Hera’s sexual power as well as her previous roles and what has changed in the industry.
If you were watching the Paris Olympics, you might have spotted identical twins Lina and Laviai Nielsen taking to the track. The Olympic duo join Nuala to discuss competing together at an elite level in athletics, winning bronze side-by-side for Team GB, and navigating triumphs and challenges in the public eye after Lina’s Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis.
Protests have been happening across India after a 31-year-old junior doctor was raped and murdered in a hospital in Kolkata earlier this month. Her death prompted marches and strikes nationwide over safety issues for female doctors and this soon developed into a talking point for women’s safety in general. BBC Delhi Correspondent Kirti Dubey joins Anita Rani to report on the latest news, along with Dr Aishwarya Singh Raghuvanshi, a female doctor in India.
The Post Office Horizon scandal has been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history. One of those impacted was Ravinder Naga. In 2009, he falsely confessed to stealing money from his mum's Post Office to protect her from going to prison. Last week his conviction was overturned after 15 years. Anita talks to Ravinder and his mum Gurbash about what happened, and the impact it had on their relationship.
The play Shifters follows former children friends Des and Dre, they are first loves whose relationship twists and turns over a decade. Currently on at the Duke of York’s Theatre, is the third play in the West End to be written by a black British woman. The writer Benedict Lombe joins Nuala, along with Heather Agyepong who plays Des.
Los Bitchos are an all-female band from countries across the world who play a range of instrumental music from the style of Colombia folk music to Turkish psychedelic rock! All four members - Nic Crawshaw, Josefine Jonsson, Serra Petale and Agustina Ruiz, join Anita to perform live.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Louise Corley
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0:05.0 | I'm Simon Jack and I'm Zing Singh. |
0:08.0 | Join us for good bad billionaire. |
0:09.0 | Each episode we pick a billionaire and we find out how they made their money like the comedian Jerry |
0:14.5 | Seinfeld the financier George Soros the golf star Tiger Woods then Simon and I |
0:19.6 | have a decision to make do we think they are good, bad or just another billionaire? |
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0:34.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:39.0 | Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this |
0:44.8 | podcast. |
0:45.8 | Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me Anita Rani in the next hour. |
0:50.1 | We'll hear from Tony and Olivier Award-winning actor Janet McTear on her latest role as |
0:55.2 | Heera Queen of the Gods in the new Netflix series Chaos. |
0:59.1 | Sisters, a relationship that's long fascinated us. |
1:03.2 | And today we're going to hear from Sisters, Sporting Rifles on the Athletics Field and |
1:07.4 | new Olympic medalists, Lavaia and Lena Nielsen. |
1:11.8 | You'll hear from Grubakshovinda who are mother and son, |
1:14.7 | Gerbach's run a post office and was caught up in the Horizon post office scandal, |
1:19.1 | a huge miscarriage of justice. Gerbachs was accused of taking money when it was a fault in the system. of Love Love, Love, with the writer and star of a new West End play, Shifters, about reviving |
1:35.7 | first love as it redefines the Romcom. |
1:38.9 | The writer Benedict Lombay is just the third British black woman to have a play stage in the West End. |
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