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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman’s Hour: Helena Bonham Carter on Nolly, Sophie Duker, Happy Valley and kinship care, Emily Atack

Helena Bonham Carter, Power List judges Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Ebony Rainford-Brent, Update on Ian Paterson

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Helena Bonham Carter on Nolly, Sophie Duker, Happy Valley and kinship care, Emily Atack

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Helena Bonham Carter on playing "the Queen of the midlands", in Russell T Davies' Nolly.

What comes to your mind when you think of the word 'hag'? The comedian Sophie Duker is on a mission to reclaim the term in her new UK stand-up tour

Helena Bonham Carter tells us about playing Noele Gordon, "the Queen of the midlands", in new ITV drama Nolly written by Russell T Davies. The actress starred in the hugely popular TV soap Crossroads for 18 years until she was sacked very suddenly in 1981. 

The TV drama Happy Valley has captured the public’s imagination with the final episode of the final series airing this Sunday. We hear from one listener who contacted Woman’s Hour about how as a kinship carer she has felt 'heard' by the drama, and Anita also speaks to Dr Lucy Peake, the chief executive of Kinship – the UK’s largest charity for kinship carers.

We speak to actor and comic, Emily Atack who is standing up against the men who cyber-flash her daily. Having received unsolicited, unwanted, abusive messages, dick pics and crude images for years she has made a documentary Emily Atack: Asking for it? for BBC 2. 

It’s 20 years in England since the repeal of section 28 – a law that came in from 1988 to 2003 to ban the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in UK schools. Professor Catherine Lee of Anglia Ruskin University is a lesbian and taught in schools for every year of section 28. We discuss how this law affected gay or lesbian teachers and students.

Women are able to recall details of sexual assault and rape with accuracy, even if they have drunk moderate amounts of alcohol, according to a new study from the University of Birmingham. Professor of psychology Heather Flowe, who led the study, tells us about its significance.

The comedian Sophie Duker is on a mission to reclaim the term 'hag' in her new UK stand-up tour of the same name. She tells us about growing up with ‘the princess myth’, embracing ageing, and our sexuality

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Surya Elango
Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

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