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Late Night Woman's Hour

Alone Time

Late Night Woman's Hour

BBC

Unknown

4.6640 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

For Zing Tsjeng, accepting a lone ticket to a Spice Girls gig was a revelation, but it's business as usual for Sofie Hagen. Meanwhile, Yomi Adegoke yearns for her own space.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.9

Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour with me, Emma Barnett.

0:08.3

Each month we bring together a group of brilliant, intelligent, honest and funny women,

0:13.0

and we ask them to tell us what they've been thinking about,

0:15.6

what makes them happy, sad, furious or excited, or all of the above. And they bring us everything. Politics,

0:23.0

culture, relationships, love, hate, sport, the lot. Nothing, and I really mean nothing, is off

0:29.7

the table. So who have we got around the table? Comedian and podcaster Sophie Hagan,

0:34.9

Vice Executive Editor Zing Singh, and writer and journalist Yomi Adegoke.

0:40.9

Zing, I'm going to come to you first. The joy of doing things on your own. Talk to us about this.

0:45.4

Right. So I'm a very much not a solo person. It actually freaks me out, the idea of going to things by myself.

0:52.4

And then the other week, I was last minute

0:54.9

offered a single ticket to Spice Girls for free at Wembley. And I completely flipped out about this.

1:02.1

I was like, I can't call it by myself. I can't, just getting on the tube by myself, surrounded

1:06.5

by all these Spice Girls fans or dressed up with their other friends and i'm by my and at the end and the end

1:11.3

and i was just like you know what just get over it and just do it and i did you yes i did and i had an

1:17.0

amazing time i you know i feel like when you go to a big concert you're always with friends who're like

1:22.6

oh can you just sit at the bar for a bit can you just like like hang back? And I had none of that. I just walked straight up to the front because I was by myself. I could just push in. Didn't care about what anyone else thought about me because I wasn't with anyone who knew who I was. And I just went literally a couple of rows back, rose from the front and made friends with a bunch of very lairy drunk women who'd been there since 6pm drinking for about

1:44.3

two and a half hours straight. One of them later to be escorted out three songs in by her friend

1:49.4

because she'd, I think she'd vomited on her own shoes. Wow. But I had commitment from the

1:55.0

bounces to get in there. I know. No, actually it was her own friend escorted her up because she was like, I've had enough of you.

2:01.2

You need to leave and you're coming with me.

2:02.9

Stop vomiting on my hand.

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