Alison White, Corona Diaries, Midlife Crisis

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

All week our drama has been about a woman bringing up her son who has cerebral palsy and learning disabilities. Today we hear from the real people behind the story: Alison White and Louis, who's an adult now. And afterwards we hear from Mencap about life during lockdown for adults with learning disabilities and their carers.

We continue our Corona Diaries. Today we have Kate Tudge who breeds pigs in Herefordshire.

We go to America to speak to Alix Kates Shulman, author of "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen" who's making face masks.

"A midlife crisis" is often used to describe middle-aged men being indulgent or irresponsible. But before it became a cliché, the term was a feminist concept. In 1976, a journalist called Gail Sheehy used it to refer to both men and women who might be reassessing their life and their choices and looking for a change. Susanne Schmidt, a history lecturer at Freie University in Berlin has written a book about Sheehy and her ideas. It's called Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché.

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0:33.0	find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway,
0:38.6	here's something you may not know.
0:40.8	My name's Linda Davies, and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:44.4	As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality
0:49.0	featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.
0:54.4	What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things,
0:59.2	like pop stars, poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories.
1:04.4	And that's just a few examples.
1:06.3	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected,
1:09.4	find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
1:17.0	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Hour Podcast
1:21.0	for Wednesday the 29th of April.
1:24.0	Good morning.
1:25.0	At a time when we're all aware of how much science matters, a 12-year-old girl wins the Big Bang
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