Weekend Woman's Hour: Katie Price, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Biba exhibition
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Model turned TV personality Katie Price joins Clare McDonnell to talk about her views on young women getting cosmetic surgery, after having several procedures herself.
It’s 60 years since the first Biba shop opened and the Fashion and Textile Museum in London have just launched a new exhibition: The Biba Story - 1964-1975. On until September, it explores how the fashion phenomenon blossomed to become the world’s first lifestyle label. Nuala McGovern speaks to its founder, Barbara Hulanicki, and the curator of the exhibition, Martin Pel.
Australian politician Georgie Purcell is the youngest woman in the parliament of the state of Victoria. From posting TikToks about animal rights, politics, and beer, to archiving her life achievements with tattoos and sharing photos of herself pole dancing – she is definitely not your average politician. She’s also been a target of almost constant sexist attacks and abuse, which on occasions made her fear for her life. Georgie talks to Nuala about why she's still determined to get more women into politics.
Described as a grim portrayal of human nature, Mothers’ Instinct is a film about the darker side of maternal love. Academy Award-winning actresses Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway play best friends raising sons of the same age in the same neighbourhood. The psychological thriller follows their apparently picture-perfect life in Sixties suburbia. The two friends in real life join Nuala to discuss.
TM Payne, or Tina, spent the last two decades working in the criminal justice system, specialising in domestic abuse. She’s now turned her hand to writing and is set to publish her first crime novel on the 1 April. She talks about her years in policing and her new-found passion for fiction.
And MOBO Award-winning singer and songwriter, Zara McFarlane, one of the UK's leading jazz vocalists. She will be appearing at this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Emma Harth
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
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| 0:34.4 | Hello, this is Claire McDonnell and you're listening to the Women's Hour podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, our special edition on Saturdays where we gather some of the best bits of Woman's Hour from the past week into one superb listen for you. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Claire McDonnell. Coming up today there is Anne Hathaway. She stars alongside Jessica Chastain in the new psychological thriller Mother's Instinct. |
| 1:00.0 | Both actors spill the beans about what it's like to make the film together as best friends, playing best friends, until they weren't. |
| 1:08.0 | Also, the Australian MP Georgie Purcell from posting Tik-Toc |
| 1:12.5 | about animal rights, politics and beer, |
| 1:15.4 | to archiving her life's achievements with tattoos |
| 1:18.4 | and sharing photos of herself poll dancing. |
| 1:21.6 | Georgie Purcell is not your average politician. |
| 1:25.0 | Only a certain type of woman is accepted into public life and I'm certainly pushing up against that. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm trying to change the narrative and change what a politician is and what a politician looks like. |
| 1:38.7 | Also, the jazz singer, Zara McFarland, celebrates the centenary of her idol, the legendary jazz singer |
| 1:45.5 | Sarah Vaughan. And Beeba as it celebrates its 60th anniversary co-founder Barbara |
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