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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Simone Ashley plays Kate Sharma in one of Netflix's biggest shows, Bridgerton, and also graced our screens in groundbreaking comedy Sex Education. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about her new romcom, Picture This, Bridgerton's success and her musical ambitions. The Tate brothers - Andrew and Tristan - have arrived in the US after Romanian prosecutors lifted a travel ban. The controversial British-American social media influencers had been under the ban in Romania for more than two years after they were charged with rape and human trafficking in 2022. They have strongly denied all allegations against them. The BBC'S Social Media Investigations Correspondent, Marianna Spring, joins us to discuss what their return to the US might mean in terms of their influence on social media and boys and young men. An investigation by BBC Humberside has been hearing from young women who've experienced inappropriate behaviour from their driving instructors. We're joined by BBC reporter Jasmine Lowe and Debbie Beadle, the CEO of the charity Fear Free, as they launch a campaign to get the position of trust law governing teachers and social workers extended to cover driving instructors too. Listener Emma Shaw got in touch with Woman's Hour after hearing author Beth Moran discuss fostering on the programme. She joins us to share her own experience of being fostered alongside her siblings, along with Sarah Thomas, CEO of The Fostering Network, a charity that supports both foster parents and children. And Katy Perry has revealed plans to go to space as part of an all-women flight on commercial space mission Blue Origin. She's expected to join owner Jeff Bezo's fiancee Lauren Sanchez and others on the New Shepard rocket this spring. Space journalist and author of Wally Funk: Race to Space, Sue Nelson, joins Nuala to share her thoughts. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths
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0:10.9 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
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0:28.1 | Hello, this is Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:32.9 | Hello, and welcome to the programme. |
0:35.1 | Anita is ill today, so instead you have me. So, hour, hold on to your Bridgeton bonnet. Kate Sharma will be here in a moment, meaning of course, actress Simone Ashley, who is one of its stars. Simone is also in a new rom-com picture this, that she has executive produced. And she has talked about being inspired by the |
0:56.8 | 2002 film Bended Like Beckham. It also got us thinking about formative films on this Oscar |
1:03.1 | weekend. Right, for me, I think it was dirty dancing. Yes, I know every word of the dialogue. |
1:08.7 | And I could indulge my fantasies of being a dancer that were never realised. |
1:13.9 | Other films that left a lifelong impression from the Women's Our Team this morning, as I asked, was Parent Trap, Heathers, Mulholland Drive, all for different reasons. |
1:24.3 | But what about you? What is your formative film and why? You can text the |
1:28.5 | program 84844 on social media. We're at BBC Woman's Hour or you can email us through our website. |
1:34.9 | For a WhatsApp message or a voice note, the number is 0-3-700-100-444. Also today, we have a listener, Emma, |
1:44.0 | and she got in touch with us after hearing our item about fostering, particularly on trying to keep siblings together. |
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