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Actor and comedian Aisling Bea joined Emma Barnett on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4's Woman's Hour and spoke about the impact of growing up surrounded by women, and why she wants women’s lives to be reflected on-screen.

Having been raised by her mother, seven aunts and a bolshy great granny, and even attending an all-girls school, she said she was shocked when she went to university and saw how different it was.

Aisling said she wouldn’t change it, and that she loves what that experience has given her. But, she told Emma that she gets ‘so intensely angry and frustrated’ when she sees two dimensional women on-screen, instead of fully formed characters, like the women she grew up with, ‘with all of their idiocies and brilliance’.

You can listen to the full interview on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sounds – it’s the Woman’s Hour episode from 19 February 2024.