{"id":36626,"date":"2023-09-08T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1877871"},"modified":"2023-09-08T23:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T21:35:45","slug":"the-woman-in-the-wall-cast-meet-the-characters-in-bbc-drama","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-woman-in-the-wall-cast-meet-the-characters-in-bbc-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman in the Wall cast: Meet the characters in BBC drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who stars alongside Ruth Wilson? <\/p>

By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 08 September 2023 at 13:30 PM<\/p>

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New BBC drama The Woman in the Wall<\/a> is inspired by the harrowing history of Ireland\u2019s Magdalene Laundries<\/a>, which saw thousands of \u201cfallen women\u201d \u2013 pregnant teenagers and others who were unmarried, labelled promiscuous or had been abused \u2013 forced to live and work in abhorrent conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had this idea about 10 years ago,\u201d said Joe Murtagh of writing the series. \u201cI was at film school and I saw The Magdalene Sisters, and I knew nothing about the laundries [at that time].<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was my introduction\u2026 and I was just absolutely horrified. I had this really uneasy feeling throughout watching it, has this actually happened to people?<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then reading into it, like, Jesus Christ, yes it has, all the way up to 1996 when the last laundry closed, and 1998 when the last mother and baby home closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an eye-opening experience realising how this horrific thing had happened. But the thing that was more horrifying was realising that I hadn\u2019t known about this, and every single person that I mentioned this to had never heard of this, and that\u2019s still true today outside of Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

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