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Woman's Hour: Archie Panjabi, Cricket, Energy management, The untold story of parliament’s working women

Archie Panjabi, Cricket, Energy management, The untold story of parliament’s working women

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Archie Panjabi, award winning star of the Good Wife, on her latest TV role, Hijack

Archie Panjabi, award winning star of the Good Wife, who made her film debuts in East is East and Bend it Like Beckham, on her latest TV thriller Hijack

The actress Archie Panjabi made her film debut in East is East and then went on to play Pinky in Bend it Like Beckham. She won the Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in “The Good Wife”. She joins Nuala to discuss her latest role  in Hijack, a thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked plane in real time across seven hours and seven episodes.
The English Cricket Board has been told to secure equal pay for its male and female cricketers by 2030 as part of the report by The Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC). The report also found that racism, sexism and class-based discrimination are widespread and deep-rooted within the game. Sports commentator and journalist Georgie Heath joins Nuala.
Do you breakdown your ‘to do’ list into hours and minutes? What if you broke down your day into how much energy you had instead? For years people with medical conditions like M.E and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have used Energy Management Techniques. Could we learn a thing or two by using the techniques, even if we don’t have extreme fatigue? Nuala talks to Lauren Walker, an Occupational Therapist and Charlie Thorne, who was a city lawyer before she became burnt out.
In 1911 Emily Wilding Davison hid in Parliament so she would appear on the census as having been there. But far before her, there were women working within Parliament who held much more power and influence than you might expect. Mari Takayanagi is a parliamentary archivist, and has written a book alongside Elizabeth Hallam-Smith that tells the stories of these unknown working women, from cleaners to housekeepers to typists. 

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
Studio Manager: Sue Maillot

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