Agony Aunt Mary Killen. Is gossip the glue of life? Disabled foster carers. C4's new drama "Adult Material".
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Agony Aunt and star of Googlebox Mary Killen joins Jane Garvey to urge us to channel her ultimate British Role model – The Queen . She argues we’d all be a bit happier, wiser and more adept if we adopted the underrated virtues of duty, kindness, discretion, restraint and fortitude as exemplified by Her Majesty.
Could disabled people help to solve the crisis in fostering? Is gossip the glue or life, why do we do it, and who does it most? Plus the writer Lucy Kirkwood and actor Hayley Squires talk about their latest project, the drama "Adult Material"
Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell PHOTO CREDIT: Hugo Burnand
Guest; Mary Killen Guest; Professor Robin Dunbar Guest; Lucy Kirkwood Guest; Hayley Squires Guest; Alison Bryne Guest; Peter Unwin
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi there, this is Jane Garvey. |
| 0:06.2 | It's Monday, the 5th of October, 2020. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, good morning. Welcome to the program. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, I'm going to be talking about gossip. |
| 0:14.2 | Never do it myself, but apparently it is quite popular. |
| 0:17.0 | At BBC Women's Area, who got a bit of gossip for me this morning, |
| 0:20.2 | I'd appreciate it. |
| 0:21.2 | We'll also be chatting to Mary Killan. |
| 0:23.4 | She is a star of Gogglebox alongside husband Giles, of course. |
| 0:28.0 | She's the Spectator magazine's Agony Aunt, and she's written a new book called, |
| 0:32.0 | What Would The Queen Do? |
| 0:34.0 | Which is full of advice for life, some of which you might like. |
| 0:38.0 | I would suggest that perhaps not all of you will like all of it, |
| 0:41.0 | but we'll chat to Mary later. |
| 0:43.0 | And there's a really interesting new channel for drama about to start. |
| 0:46.0 | It's called Adopt Material. |
| 0:48.0 | It's about a woman juggling family and career. |
| 0:51.0 | Nothing new there. |
| 0:52.0 | You might think except the career in question is in the porn industry. |
| 0:55.0 | So we'll talk to the writer and to the star of Adopt Material. |
| 0:59.0 | Our woman's out a little later this morning. |
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