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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Tina the Musical, Rape Trials and the Court of Public Opinion

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21/04/2018

Weekend Woman's Hour: Tina the Musical, Rape Trials and the Court of Public Opinion

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Tina the Musical, Rape Trials and the Court of Public Opinion

Director Phyllida Lloyd on Tina Turner the Musical, Kathleen Turner and online personas.

Director Phyllida Lloyd on Tina Turner the Musical. Plus actors Kathleen Turner and Eve Myles, life after online abuse and Folk-pop girl band Stealing Sheep perform.

Phyllida Lloyd, the director, on the challenges of a staging a musical biography as Tina the Musical opens in London. It stars Adrienne Warren as soul icon Tina Turner.

In July 2014 Jane talked to a woman we named 'Helen' who was taking part in a pilot project in London called Pause. It supports women who've had multiple children taken into care to try and break the cycle by using long-acting contraception and gives helps them address underlying issues like addiction, poor mental health and abuse. Four years later, Jane meets 'Helen' to hear how she's getting on

In the wake of movements like #MeToo and #IBelieveHer, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and the Chair of the Criminal Bar Association Angela Rafferty discuss concerns that legal outcomes in rape and sexual assault cases may be undermined by public opinion. 

Is it possible for any woman to live up to expectations and be a good mother? We hear from Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities at Birkbeck and author of 'Mothers, An Essay on Love and Cruelty'. 

We speak to Eve Myles, the star of the S4C hit drama series Keeping Faith which is set in Wales. Eve plays Faith Howells, whose life is turned upside down when her husband Evan mysteriously disappears. 

Award winning actor Kathleen Turner has starred in films like Body Heat & Romancing the Stone. Now she's in a one woman cabaret style show called Finding My Voice singing songs from the Great American Song Book and telling stories from her life. She tells us what Hollywood was like in the 80s.

On social media, anyone has the ability to create a persona that suits them. But what happens when this becomes the biggest part of their identity? Vlogger Nia Pettitt and comedian Bella Younger discuss how to escape an online persona. 

In our series Take Back ConTROLL, we follow the stories of women who have been shamed online. Charley found out that her step-brother had posted pictures of her on a US porn website. She tells Emma Barnett how she felt when she saw the images. 

And Folk-pop girl band Stealing Sheep perform their new single Joking Me.

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