LW Recommends

LW Recommends

LW Recommends

TV

A Private Affair: Un Asunto Privado

This eight-part TV series has had mixed reviews but is an entertaining production which allows the lead role to be female despite being set in the 1950s. Aura Garrido acts the part of a daring privileged woman with a knack for detective work. She is frustrated by the restrictions on her life as a woman and is determined to investigate a murder crime herself. She is ably assisted by a long-suffering butler acted by Jean Reno.

PODCAST

In Our Time

This long-running series hosted by Melvyn Bragg considers the impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). She was highly esteemed in her lifetime and exhibited at the prestigious Salon de Paris as well as all but one of the impressionist exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886.

The podcast discusses her life, work and legacy. An exhibition of work is to be held at The Dulwich Gallery in London in 2023 Berthe Morisot: Impressionism and the 18th Century | Dulwich Picture Gallery.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cxwl.

EVENT

Fawcett Society: Our Feminist Recovery: Resting, Reviving, Resisting AGM and Conference is on Saturday 19 November at King’s House, London.

There will be a diverse range of inspirational activists, change-makers and political leaders for breakout sessions, panel discussions and networking. There is confirmed attendance from Ayesha Hazarika, Stella Creasy MP, Anum Qaisar MP, Halima Begum of Runnymede Trust, Mandu Reid of the Women’s Equality Party and leading barrister and campaigner, Dr Charlotte Proudman.

You can find our more here Fawcett website.

Conference tickets cost £25 for members and £15 for concessionary members.

TALK

Centenary of the admission of women lawyers

Legal Women’s first in-person event: Lubna Shuja, President of The Law Society of England and Wales, will speak at Macfarlanes LLP, London – Wednesday 14 December 6pm.

See Events page on www.LegalWomen.org.uk.

BOOK

Duplicity ‘My Mothers’ Secrets’ by Donna Freed

Donna was six years old when her sister casually told her that she and her siblings were all adopted. It was a revelation that fractured her sense of identity but remained one of those things left unsaid within the family. Later, when her complicated and unconventional adoptive mother died, Donna was left feeling exposed, her life un-witnessed without a mother to look over her.

So, she decided to investigate her origins and began the search for her birth mother. Trawling through records, she discovered she had been adopted through the notorious Louise Wise Adoption Service based in Manhattan and since exposed as corrupt and unethical, but that was just the beginning. As she dug deeper, she discovered that her birth parents had been involved in an explosive and salacious story, one of the biggest true crime stories to grip the USA in the late 1960s.

PLAY

Prima Facie

Many readers have recommended this play. Although the live performances sold out rapidly, there are cinema showings of the recording with the added bonus of a Q and A. It is still a powerful experience producing many strong reactions and much to debate. See the full review on page 36.