50:50 Parliament. Women and wargaming. Developing language skills. Christmas social burn out.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Since last week's Election, a thousand women have signed up with 50:50 Parliament to register their interest in standing as an MP next time. What's inspiring them to get involved ?
For the last five years, Annie Norman has been on a mission to make women more visible in the wargaming world. She tells us about the inspiration behind her latest collection of minitures.
Professor Usha Goswami, an expert on children’s language development on how much babies understand, and why rhythm so important for developing language skills.
And if keeping up with all the festive celebrations is getting too much, tips on how to avoid "social burnout".
Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; Professor Usha Goswami Guest; Annie Norman Guest; Frances Scott, Guest; Lucrece Grehoua Guest; Olivia Petter Guest; Louise Tyler.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.0 | BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:40.7 | It's Christmas Party Week and you may have woken up with a hangover and wondering how to say no to the next set of invitations. |
| 0:49.0 | How best to deal with the burnout caused by an overactive festive social life. |
| 0:56.1 | An award for research into her children develop language and why some suffer from dyslexia. Professor Usha Gosswami is director of the Center for Neuroscience |
| 1:06.5 | in Education. And the kind of war game where you move miniature figures around aboard. |
| 1:13.0 | Annie Norman has introduced some female miniatures who might have served in World War II. |
| 1:17.0 | The MPs who won seats in last week's election have been signing up to Parliament in the past couple of days |
| 1:24.7 | and 220 of them are women. A record number of female MPs but still a long way from equal numbers of men and women. It's 34% female and 66% male. |
| 1:38.0 | Well an organisation called 50-50 Parliament was launched six years ago in 2013 and they now report an influx of new |
| 1:46.3 | members since the election. |
| 1:49.0 | A thousand women have signed up with a clear interest in standing next time. |
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