Weekend Woman’s Hour: Keira Knightley and Sarah Lancashire, Sutara Gayle, Uterine fibroids, Surviving grief, Josie Lloyd

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Powerhouse actors Keira Knightley and Sarah Lancashire are starring alongside Ben Wishaw in new Netflix spy drama Black Doves. It follows the story of a female spy seeking revenge for the murder of her lover – whilst outwardly being married to a high-ranking politician. Keira and Sarah spoke to Nuala McGovern about the drama, their careers and their experiences as women in the film industry.

Sutara Gayle is an actor and reggae artist. She fuses music with memories of her eventful life in a new show: The Legends of Them. From hearing her radio debut whilst in Holloway Prison on remand, to the Brixton uprisings in 1985 that were sparked by the shooting of her sister, the show explores a hugely varied and at times deeply moving portrayal of her life, and the women who have shaped it. Sutara joined Anita Rani in the studio.

Professor Nicola Rollock is best known for her academic research and writing on race and society. As a friend of the programme, she approached us to ask to talk about something more personal - her experience of uterine fibroids, something that affects around 70% of women, but this rises to 80% for black women. Nicola joined Nuala alongside Hilary Critchley, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, to discuss more.

After the actor Anna Maxwell Martin spoke on the programme about the grief she experienced after her husband died suddenly in 2021, we were inundated with listeners sharing their stories. Two of them, Giselle De Hasse and Heather Ashley, joined Anita to talk about how they manage their grief day to day.

Author Josie Lloyd joined Nuala to discuss her new novel featuring fictional Alice Beeton, the prim and organised owner of The Good Household Management Agency and distant relative of the real-life Victorian cookery and household writer Mrs Beeton. Alice and her ancestor share a love of recipes and an eye for detail, which comes in handy when Alice becomes involved in a cosy, Christmassy crime in Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Louise Corley

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.4	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.1	I wouldn't even know where to start.
0:26.7	And I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.5	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.5	Hello, I'm Anita Rani, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:42.6	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:49.4	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me, Anita Rani.
0:53.3	On the programme today, the acting duo Sarah Lancashire and Kira Knightley,
0:57.9	who've teamed up for the Netflix series Black Doves,
1:00.6	which will have your hearts racing.
1:03.0	When the actor Anna Maxwell Martin was on a few weeks ago,
1:06.2	she spoke very honestly about how her grief had impacted her life,
1:10.4	and many of you got in touch with
1:12.1	your own experiences of grief. We speak to two listeners about how they coped. And some cozy
1:18.2	crime with author Josie Lloyd and her new book, Ms Beaton's Murder Agency. Crime is a broad
1:25.1	church, isn't it? And I would say that this is the tea and cakes in the church hall end of the broad church. You know, I'm quite squeamish, to be honest. You know, in a fight or flight situation, I'm out the door. I am not the girl that is going to open the door, the creaky door down to a basement and go down and have a look. I'm just not.
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