Ambika Mod, Forgiveness, Grandparent classes, Grammys
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ambika Mod stars as Emma in the new Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’ much-loved novel One Day. She acts opposite Leo Woodall as Dex, and their comedic romance plays out over 14 episodes and 20 years. You may have seen Ambika as Shruti, the junior doctor with a pivotal plot line in the BBC labour ward drama This is Going to Hurt. She joins Anita Rani in the Woman’s Hour studio to talk about now taking the lead.
A new programme on Radio 4, Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line, explores how you survive and restore your life, when something truly appalling is done to you. Anita is joined by the founder of the Forgiveness Project, Marina Cantacuzino and Marian Partington, whose sister Lucy was murdered by Fred and Rosemary West in 1973.
Grandparent antenatal classes give grandparents-to-be the chance to brush up on practical skills and get key advice on how to look after young kids again. Anita talks to Dr Francesca Dooley, founder of Happy Parents Happy Baby where she runs grandparent classes, and Francesca’s mother Beverly Bonora who was in her first ever class.
Taylor Swift has made history at the Grammys by winning album of the year for a fourth time. Billie Elish, SZA and Miley Cyrus also took home major awards. Even Jay-Z got in on the act, calling out the fact that his wife Beyonce has never won album of the year. Anita discusses with Jude Rogers, arts and culture journalist for the Guardian and Observer and Tschepo Mokoena, freelance culture writer and author of Beyonce, Lives of Musicians.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi my name's Tommy Dixon and I make podcast for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories |
| 0:09.8 | always loved a good book but when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered |
| 0:14.0 | podcasts. I was blown away about how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds |
| 0:18.6 | could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that |
| 0:22.4 | make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to give it a go myself, |
| 0:26.3 | which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole new career given other people that exact same feeling. |
| 0:33.0 | So if you want to hear amazing stories that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or a click |
| 0:37.3 | away on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:41.1 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womons Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:50.0 | Good morning and welcome to the program at the start of another week and we begin by thinking about forgiveness because we're talking about it on the program today. |
| 0:59.0 | When, if ever in your life have you forgiven someone? |
| 1:02.6 | Or maybe you haven't. |
| 1:03.6 | Maybe you are still bearing a grudge, still angry and cannot find it within yourself to forgive. |
| 1:08.6 | Should we always forgive? |
| 1:10.4 | What did forgiving do for you? |
| 1:12.1 | It could have been for something really serious or really trivial. |
| 1:15.4 | I would love to hear from you this morning if you have managed it. Is it easier said than done? |
| 1:19.4 | Get in touch with me in the usual way. |
| 1:21.0 | 84844 is the number to text. You can also email me via the website. |
| 1:25.2 | You can contact us on social media. It's at BBC Woman's Hour. |
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