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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.0 | And welcome to a busy programme, as always. |
0:12.7 | We have the amateur historian whose research helped locate the remains of a king in a car |
0:17.2 | park, the star footballer confronting painful home truths, and the Democratic Senator who's |
0:22.5 | flown to the UK to give attention to the so-called special political relationship. |
0:27.5 | All to come, but I wanted to ask you about working on single sex teams. |
0:33.2 | When have you worked only with women, either at work or away from the job? |
0:37.1 | How was it? |
0:38.1 | Did it work well? |
0:39.3 | Any downsides, you know I always like you to share? |
0:42.0 | Experiences also of single sex male teams are welcome too. |
0:45.4 | But this has come to mind this morning with this wonderful story about four British women |
0:49.3 | who are swapping their day jobs, heading off to Antarctica to run the world's most southerly |
0:54.1 | post office, known as the Penguin Post Office for five months. |
0:58.8 | It's got its name because besides one returning team member, there are no other permanent |
1:02.7 | residents, other than a colony of 1,500 penguins. |
1:06.8 | You may be thinking why do these penguins need a post office? |
1:09.5 | Well, it's because there are 80,000 postcards delivered by hand from tourists arriving on |
1:16.1 | cruise ships. |
1:17.4 | This post office has been closed over the pandemic. |
1:19.9 | It's reopening for the first time in two years. |
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