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Back to SearchActor Geena Davis. Sibling age gaps. Modern slavery and working rights.
In her memoir "Dying of Politeness" the Oscar winning actor Geena_Davis talks about her roles from a housewife-turned-road warrior and an amnesiac assassin to the mother of a rodent, and the presiden…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Choreographer Jasmin Vardimon, Behind the Rage with Deeyah Khan, Met Police report, Motorcycling
Jasmin Vardimon is one of the UK’s leading choreographers and was awarded an MBE for services to dance in the late Queen’s final birthday honours list in June. This month Jasmin is bringing ALiCE - …
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Nicole Hockley, Juliet Stevenson, Women protesting in Iran, Sue Townsend's legacy
Nicole Hockley lost her son Dylan when he was 6 years old, during the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in 2012. She talks about her son, her feelings of loss, her activism and her reaction t…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
The Staves live, Nicole Hockley, Manisha Tailor, Women and body art
This week, in a defamation trial in the US, Alex Jones, founder of the Infowars website, was ordered to pay nearly one billion dollars in damage to eight families and an FBI agent. He had falsely cla…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Actor Juliet Stevenson. 40 years after Adrian Mole the legacy of Sue Townsend. Paralympian now dancer Ellie Simmonds
The Doctor’ first opened at the Almeida in 2019 Juliet Stevenson’s performance was described as ‘one of the peaks of the theatrical year’. Now on stage in London’s West End the play has again been hi…
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Erin Doherty in The Crucible, Strip clubs, Brazilian butt lifts, Angela Lansbury
Based on the Salem trials in Massachusetts in 1692, where young girls accused their elders of satanism, a new production of Arthur Miller's modern classic The Crucible has just opened at the National…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Helen O'Hara, International Day of the Girl, photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind on Ukraine
The Royal College of Nursing, the world's biggest nurses' union, has a culture of bullying and misogyny, according to an internal report. Jessica Creighton speaks to Pat Cullen, the General Secretar…
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Countdown to COP27, Amy Loughren, Poet Cecilia Knapp
With this year’s UN Climate Conference – COP27 – just under a month away, political leaders and activists are preparing to visit Egypt which will host the event this year. Climate activist Farwiza Fa…
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Merope Mills on her daughter Martha, Actor Sheila Atim on Woman King, Women in the armed forces, Truss impersonators
Merope Mills’ 13-year-old daughter Martha died in hospital in August 2021. An inquest concluded that her death had been preventable, and the hospital has apologised. Merope, who is Editor of the Guar…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Sheila Atim, Péju Alatise, Amanda Wakeley, Emma Norton
Anita Rani talks to Sheila Atim the award-winning British-Ugandan actor about her new film ‘The Woman King’. She plays the warrior Amenza, part of the Agojie, an all-female army who battle fearlessl…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago