Nuala McGovern
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Presenter @BBCWomansHour @BBCRadio4 & Newshour @BBCWorldservice Also @bbcworld & @bbcnews 📺 @bbc5live IG: @bbcnuala 📱
Dublin, London, Wicklow
Joined July 2012
Your new line-up @BBCWomansHour - amazing @itsanitarani & me
📣 It’s nearly time… Our new presenter line-up begins on Monday! 📣 🎙 You can hear @bbcnuala on Woman’s Hour on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds every Monday - Wednesday and @itsanitarani every Thursday - Saturday. We’d love for you to join us! 📻
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BBC presenter Nuala McGovern: ‘You don’t want to get notions above your station’
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The Dublin-born presenter of Woman’s Hour on missing the spontaneity of going out dancing, her strongest childhood memory, and her biggest career regret
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‘It's a superpower to get the hump’ Comedian Laura Smyth says she was ‘born aggy’ – and even growing up she had ‘the hump’ about everything. In this #throwbackthursday clip, Laura told @bbcnuala why she now thinks it’s actually a superpower ⬇️
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‘I can’t imagine my life without music… and garlic’ 🤣🧄 Actor & singer @petulaclarkhq has just published her autobiography, Is that You, Petula?, at 92-years-old ✨ She told @bbcnuala about the book & let us in on her secret to living a joyful & fulfilling life 👀 ⬇️
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Thank you @GerardODonovan1 for including our @BBCWomansHour Guide to Life in your radio and podcasts of the week. 🙏 Listen @BBCSounds
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’It was the perfect ending because it meant I did it for my mum & dad’ 🧡 England rugby player & World Cup winner Meg Jones joined @bbcnuala after days of celebrating their win that had taken their toll on her voice 🎊 Meg shared what the victory meant for her & her team ⬇️
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'We want the same rights as everyone else' Parents of children with SEND gathered today for a 'Day of Action', including a rally in Parliament Square. Katie, who has autism & struggled to attend school, told @bbcnuala she thinks the government needs to listen to young people ⬇️
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‘I had my daughter and then 13 days later I sat my school exams’ Irish comedian @Emmaloudoran tells @bbcnuala about her teenage pregnancy and the motivation it gave her ⬇️
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‘She’s got lots of young female fans… I don’t think that’s going to translate’ Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend, has caused a stir, with the artwork described by some as ‘provocative’. @juderogers told @bbcnuala why she thinks it's been controversial 🎶 ⬇️
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‘Learning Welsh was one of the best things I’ve ever done’ 🏴 Welsh actor Eve Myles told @bbcnuala about how she learnt Welsh in four months for her role as Faith Howells in the bilingually-produced drama series, Keeping Faith 📺👏
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‘Gen Z graduate into young adulthood in their 30s. We had to do it before 21’ Actor Robin Wright told @bbcnuala about becoming a young mum & why she thinks many young people are ‘flying the nest’ and entering young adulthood later than previous generations ⬇️
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Series Director and our contributor Cathy’s interview with @BBCNuala McGovern on Woman’s Hour. Find out more about the latest Long Lost Family special - The Mother and Baby Home Scandal, which spans two nights, by listening to @BBCWomansHour at 10am #LongLostFamily
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‘Grief is messy, no one knows how to deal with it’ Author @miriamkrobinson told @bbcnuala why she wanted to write about grief and miscarriage in her new book, And Notre Dame is Burning, and how it helped give her a better understanding of her own grief ⬇️
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‘There’s a lot of snobbery around spicy fiction’ 🌶️ ❓Do you love getting lost in a romance novel? 👀 Author Emma Lucy & Stylist journalist Shahed Ezaydi told @bbcnuala all about ’spicy’ fiction & the stigma that surrounds this sub-genre of romance novels ⬇️
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'Don't let people tell you who you can and can't be' @Lionesses goalkeeper @hannahhampton_ joined @bbcnuala on Monday's Woman's Hour - still on a high from England's win at the Euros ⚽️ 🏆 Hannah told Nuala how she was feeling now she'd had time to reflect on the win 👀
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'No one believed I was in labour' Black women in the UK face disproportionately high risks during pregnancy, childbirth & the postnatal period, according to a report by the community interest company Five X More. Five X More’s co-founder @TinukeAwe joined @bbcnuala ⬇️
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Coming up: Actor Harriet Webb, known for her role in Channel 4’s Bafta-winning series Big Boys, joins @bbcnuala in the studio! She’s returning to our screens with series two of Sky Original’s Mr Bigstuff, starring alongside Danny Dyer & the show’s creator Ryan Sampson 📺 ⬇️
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Black women in the UK continue to face disproportionately high risks during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period, according to a report by the community interest company Five X More. @bbcnuala talks to Five X More’s co-founder, Tinuke, to discuss ⬇️
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‘My mother is 99 and I still have quite an intense relationship with her’ 🎭 Award-winning actor Fiona Shaw spoke to @bbcnuala about her changing relationship with her mother & the complexity of mother-daughter relationships, as she stars in Hot Milk 🎞️ Listen on @bbcsounds ⬇️
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Tomorrow’s Woman’s Hour is coming to you LIVE from Worthy Farm ⛺️ 🙌 @itsanitarani will be at #Glastonbury hearing from fantastic guests including singers SELF ESTEEM and @tiftmerritt, three generations of Glasto women & more! Grab yourself a cuppa & join us ⬇️
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