8th Grade, Jing-Jing Lee, Mozambique floods

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Bo Burnham's film Eight Grade has just been released in the UK and explores the challenges of being a young teenager in the age of social media. Is it a coming of age film for our time? Jane speaks to film critic Rhianna Dhillon.

While Storm Hannah hit the UK over the weekend, Cyclone Kenneth has unleashed flooding on Mozambique causing widespread destruction barely a month after a previous cyclone killed hundreds and devastated large areas. Cate Turton heads-up the UK’s Department for International Development and is based in Mozambique. What has been the impact of the recent flooding in Mozambique and the response? She also talks to Jane about her life and what has taken her into international humanitarian work.

It is 40 years this Friday since the UK elected its first woman Prime Minister on May 3rd 1979. Woman’s Hour marks this pivotal moment with a week of programming. The late Margaret Thatcher remains a deeply controversial and divisive figure and Woman's Hour will explore her importance as a female leader; focusing on the woman and her impact on women’s lives. Today Jane Garvey looks at how the Woman’s Hour archive captured this moment in time.

Jing-Jing Lee on her debut novel, How We Disappeared. Based partly on her own traumatic family history, Jing tells the story of one woman’s survival in occupied Singapore and a child's quest to solve a family mystery

Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Caroline Donne

Interviewed Guest: Rhianna Dhillon Interviewed Guest: Cate Turton Interviewed Guest: Jing-Jing Lee

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:41.0	Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Our Podcasts Monday, the 20th. podcasts. have been
0:54.0	living alive but that was the week Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. We've been dipping into our archive to find out what
0:56.0	women's air sounded like in 1979 and I can tell you
1:00.0	that section of the program features Jenny Murray saying Pony Club in a way that she wouldn't these days.
1:06.7	8th grade is a new film on Saturday. We're asking today whether it's the film that really does.
1:11.9	Finally nail adolescence on celluloid.
1:15.4	And how did a man of 28 appear to understand the world of a 13 year old girl so well?
1:21.6	It's a male director, he is only 28, names Bo Burnham, he's a
1:25.1	Youchuber. Anyway you can hear what our reviewers thought of the film on this
1:29.2	woman's hour podcast, but we started with a new study which shows that obese children are more likely to suffer
1:35.8	emotional problems. This is a study by researchers at Liverpool University which looked at
1:40.9	17,000 children.
1:43.0	It's being presented this morning to the European Congress on Obesity in Glasgow.
1:48.0	I talked to one of the lead researchers,
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