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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracy-Ann Oberman, the SEND system, Sarah Owen MP

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tracy-Ann Oberman has reprised her role as Eastenders’ Chrissie Watts. She talks to Nuala about stepping back into this character after almost two decades, and her recent adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. In it, Tracy-Ann plays a female version of the Jewish character, Shylock, and sets the action in 1930s London during the rise of Oswald Mosley, the antisemitic founder of the British Union of Fascists.

We look back at Tuesday's special programme, live from the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House in London, looking at the support for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities – or SEND as it’s often known in England. Nuala heard from guest panellists including Kellie Bright, an actress in EastEnders but also a mum to a child with SEND, Katie, who is 17 and says she was completely failed by the SEND system, Marsha Martin, the founder and CEO of the charity Black SEN Mamas and the Minister for School Standards, Catherine McKinnell.

Visual artist Bharti Kher’s new exhibition, Target Queen at the Southbank Centre, features supersized bindis reimagined from their microscopic form to the macro size worn by the goddess, transforming the brutalist building into a powerful feminine force. Bharti joins Anita to discuss the exhibition.

The newly elected Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Labour MP Sarah Owen, joins Anita Rani on the programme to discuss the remit of her new role and what she hopes to achieve.

A new play, The Lightest Element, which has opened at Hampstead Theatre, explores the life and career of astronomer Cecila Payne-Gaposchkin, the first person to work out what stars are made of. Anita is joined by actor Maureen Beatie, who plays Cecilia, and the playwright Stella Feehilly.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe?

0:05.1

Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right?

0:10.6

We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better.

0:13.4

It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically,

0:17.6

but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music.

0:21.5

It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.

0:25.0

Sidetracked with us Annie and Nick,

0:27.0

listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:34.0

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.0

Good afternoon. Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me Anita Rani.

0:43.6

Coming up on the program, we hear from actor Tracey Ann Oberman,

0:47.5

who's back playing the infamous Chrissy Watts in EastEnders,

0:51.0

and the new chair of the Women and Equality Select Committee,

0:54.3

MP Sarah Owen, speaks to me about her new job.

0:58.4

But first, let me remind you, or let me tell you,

1:01.1

if you didn't hear our special program on Mums

1:03.6

bridging the gap in the send system that special educational needs and

1:08.3

disabilities it was recorded on Tuesday in the BBC's radio theatre this week.

1:13.0

It was a really passionate conversation and throughout the program we heard from guest panelists,

1:18.0

including Kelly Bright, an actress in EastEnders, but also a mum to a child with Send.

1:24.3

Katie, who is 17 and says she was completely failed by the Send system.

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