Jo Pavey, Helen McCrory
Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, presented by Jane Garvey. Including Jo Pavey, Helen McCrory, encouraging girls into vocational courses, and eating disorders and older women.
Jo Pavey discusses what it's like to be the oldest female European Athletics champion after winning gold in the ten thousand metres in Zurich. Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby joins Jane Garvey to discuss his comments that women MPs were more likely to be interested in "small problems rather than big ideas".
What is it like to suffer from an eating disorder when you're in your 40s and 50s and how can women be helped? We talk to two women who've suffered from anorexia, and consultant psychiatrist Paul Robinson. Nia Reynolds on Claudia Jones the civil rights activist who in the wake of the Notting Hill riots established the first major celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture in 1959.
How can more young women and girls be encouraged to take a vocational route into male dominated careers like IT and engineering? The actress Helen McCrory on her new role playing the ultimate anti-heroine, Euripides's Medea. And she tells us what it's like to be married to a heartthrob. Susanna White, Anna Keel and Amy Walker discuss the lack of female directors in television and why it matters.
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Jane Thurlow.
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Last year the actress Briony McRoberts died when she threw herself in front of a train on the London underground. She was 56. Her husband, the Downton Abbey actor David Robb, has more recently attributed her death to her eating disorder, which she had battled with since she was a teenager. He said听鈥淪he was murdered by anorexia. It isn鈥檛 a self-centred, teenage disease. It kills people 鈥 middle-aged women鈥 If it gets its hooks in, it suffocates the person.鈥
So why, even in the wake of cases like Briony鈥檚, do we still see eating disorders as a young women鈥檚 disease? Julie Kirkwood is aged 43 and from Dumfries, and Aimee Yates is aged 40 and from Cambridge. Both have been treated for anorexia and Aimee is still battling her binge eating disorder. They join Jane along with Dr Paul Robinson, consultant听psychiatrist at the Eating Disorders Unit at St Ann鈥檚 Hospital in London.
Beat is the UK鈥檚 leading charity supporting anyone affected by eating disorders or difficulties with food, weight and shape. It provides information and support through its helplines and online support.
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Girls and Vocational Courses
Thursday is GCSE result day and often the first time that young people seriously start considering their next steps and thinking about career options.听 Research shows young women are still being discouraged from traditionally male-dominated careers like IT and engineering.听 If they鈥檙e taking a vocational route how are those stereotyped choices being challenged?听 Jenni speaks to Marion Plant OBE, Joint Principal of North Warwickshire & Hinckley College and South Leicestershire College and Tiana Locker, youth engagement officer for City and Guilds.
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Helen McCrory
Over a lengthy career, Helen McCrory has played an impressive range of roles. On stage she鈥檚 been Rosalind in 鈥楢s You Like it鈥; and Libby in 鈥楾he Last of the Haussmans鈥; her film roles have included Cherie Blair in 鈥楾he Queen鈥, Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies and Clair Dowar in the James Bond film, Skyfall. On the small screen she has played a raft of roles including the older woman who falls for a much younger man in Tony Marchant鈥檚 Leaving.
Now she stars as the ultimate anti-heroine, Euripides鈥檚 Medea, in a new听. Medea tells the story of a jilted wife, who breaks the ultimate taboo by murdering her children as a way of revenge against her ex-husband.听Jenni Murray talks to Helen about playing the title role in one of the most horrifying of the Greek tragedies.
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Female Directors
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Jane Garvey |
Interviewed Guest | Jo Pavey |
Interviewed Guest | Austin Mitchell |
Interviewed Guest | Isabel Hardman |
Interviewed Guest | Ivana Bartoletti |
Interviewed Guest | Paul Robinson |
Interviewed Guest | Nia Reynolds |
Interviewed Guest | Rachael Carr |
Interviewed Guest | Tiana Locker |
Interviewed Guest | Marion Plant |
Interviewed Guest | Helen McCrory |
Interviewed Guest | Susanna White |
Interviewed Guest | Anna Keel |
Interviewed Guest | Amy Walker |
Producer | Rabeka Nurmahomed |
Editor | Jane Thurlow |
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- Sat 23 Aug 2014 16:0091热爆 Radio 4
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