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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:09.9 | A treat for you today, the actor Andrea Reisbrough will be joining me shortly, talking ahead |
0:14.8 | of the new Matilda film coming out on Friday, which she plays Matilda's mum Mrs. Wormwood. |
0:20.7 | It's quite the performance and my goodness, her outfits in it are just remarkable. |
0:25.3 | So is Matilda played magnificently by 13-year-old Alicia Weir? And that's what I wanted to ask |
0:31.0 | you about today. If you relate to Matilda, presuming you know the story, an academically gifted |
0:36.9 | girl who loves studying, she does well at school and she's finally allowed to get in there, |
0:42.1 | and it's not appreciated, shall we say, within the family and also perhaps at times at the |
0:47.2 | school that she ends up being at. Has it been a good thing for you or a bad thing in your |
0:51.7 | life if you were perhaps one of those girls who absolutely loved learning and excelled |
0:55.7 | at it? I'm just casting my mind back. Do you remember when girly SWOT was weaponised |
1:00.3 | as a phrase for a while when it emerged Boris Johnson at called David Cameron, that |
1:06.2 | as an insults and then Baroness Hale, the first woman to be appointed to the UK Supreme |
1:10.6 | Court, said that she loved being a girly SWOT, defended the moniker as something to be |
1:16.0 | proud of. It got us thinking about the idea of girls and then who obviously grow into |
1:22.2 | women, enjoying their studies, doing well, excelling and whether that's been a good thing |
1:26.9 | in your life or not. If you can relate to that, if you have a bit of Matilda that you find |
1:31.8 | relatable, get in touch this morning, it'd be lovely to hear from you and how it's affected |
1:36.0 | you for the rest of your life would also be interesting to hear. The number you need, |
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