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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Irish actor Caitríona Balfe was nominated for a Bafta for her performance in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast and is also known to many as Claire in time travel drama series Outlander. Caitríona joins Nuala McGovern in the studio to discuss her latest role in new film The Amateur, playing a Russian spy alongside Rami Malek.
There has been a "significant increase" in the number of female swimmers having indecent images taken of them in changing rooms whilst competing in the elite level of the sport, according to a leaked report. The Times newspaper has seen a report by the sport’s governing body Swim England which states that pictures have been taken using camera phones over or under cubicles. Nuala is joined by BBC Sport correspondent Laura Scott and Mhairi Maclennan, CEO of Kyniska Advocacy, which supports women and victims of abuse in sport.
The latest figures on child maintenance show there is currently £690m unpaid, leaving thousands of children without the financial support they are entitled to. Critics argue that the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is failing to use its legal powers, while the Government says enforcement measures are improving. As an inquiry by the cross-party House of Lords Public Services committee calls for evidence, we look at how unpaid child maintenance can be used as a form of economic abuse. Nuala hears from Sam Smethers, Chair of the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, and a survivor whose ex-partner used the system to control her.
A new exhibition called Curious Cures at Cambridge University Library explores medicine in the medieval era. Dozens of unique medical manuscripts, recipes, cures and guides to healthy living from the 14th and 15th centuries are on display. To discuss women’s role in medieval medicine, Nuala is joined by the exhibition’s curator and medieval manuscripts specialist, Dr James Freeman.
Grammy award-winning singer Chappell Roan has been causing a stir with some comments she made about motherhood on the podcast Call Her Daddy. The 27-year-old singer said her friends her age who have kids "are in hell", adding "I actually don't know anyone who's happy and has children at this age." So is motherhood worth it - or is Chappell Roan right? Anna Whitehouse, also known as Mother Pukka, is a campaigner and mum of five. She joins us to discuss.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths
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0:00.0 | No, you keep that private. |
0:04.1 | Find out what made Lily Allen and Mickey to Oliver say this. |
0:08.0 | It's just so next level what we're talking about. |
0:10.9 | But you know what I mean? |
0:12.4 | And this. |
0:13.3 | I think we should put our phones down and go to the park |
0:15.9 | and try and remember what was good about the world |
0:18.3 | and let's try and get back to there. |
0:20.2 | Sounds good. Join them as they's try and get back to there. Sounds good. |
0:21.3 | Join them as they talk about pretty much everything. |
0:24.8 | Yes, we do go to all sorts of places, happy, sad and everything in between. |
0:29.7 | Miss me with Lily Allen and Makita Oliver. |
0:32.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:35.2 | Hello, this is Neula McGovern and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:39.8 | Hello, and welcome to the program. |
0:41.7 | The actor Katrina Balf will be here in the Woman's Hour studio. |
0:45.8 | She had perhaps a late night last night. |
0:47.9 | She had the UK premiere for her new film, The Amateur, so I'm looking forward to speaking to her. |
0:53.0 | Also, as an inquiry into child maintenance |
0:55.2 | gets underway, we're going to hear from a woman who says her ex-partner used child maintenance |
1:00.1 | as a form of coercive control. And stargazing, hairs, wombs, applesauce, just some of the wellness |
1:09.0 | treatments employed by medieval women. We're going to hear |
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