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Woman's Hour

Amy Winehouse remembered; Canadian residential schools; Women at the Tokyo Olympics; Typewriters; Casual workwear

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It is 10 years since the tragic death of the singer Amy Winehouse from alcohol poisoning at the age of just 27. A new documentary film, Reclaiming Amy on the BBC on features Amy's closest friends and family and seeks to tell the story of the real Amy. We hear from her mother, Janis and close friend Catriona Gourlay.

For the first time in 125 years, Team GB are taking more women athletes to the Tokyo Olympics than men. So could this be the best ever Games for women? Dame Katherine Grainger, Britain's joint most decorated female Olympian and Chair of UK Sport; double Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams and Anna Kessel, Women's Sport Editor at The Telegraph discuss.

More than 1000 bodies of indigenous children have been found in unmarked graves outside of former residential schools in several parts of Canada over the last few months. Assistant Professor in the History & Classics Department from the University of Alberta tells us about the history of these schools - and the impact they had on the indigenous communities in Canada. And President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Lorraine Whitman talks about the aftermath of these discoveries - and the fight for justice for the many missing and murdered indigenous women across the country.

We also hear from artistic swimmers Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe who are representing Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics. The pair have spoken out about receiving trolling and bullying for their professional synchronised swimmer physiques, describing themselves as having "big shoulders, small boobs and small bums".

The fashion historian Lucy Adlington & Style Coach Loulou Storey discuss workwear trends.

In the digital age, the humble typewriter seems rather quaint. But according to a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, the typewriter is a technology with a key role in the story of female emancipation. We hear from the exhibition's principal curator, Alison Taubman.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

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0:34.4

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, choice cuts from the week just gone.

0:39.6

We celebrate what some people are calling the Women's Olympics.

0:44.3

In the digital age, the humble typewriter seems rather quaint,

0:47.6

while a new exhibition celebrates the typewriter and the role it played in women's freedoms.

0:53.0

More than a thousand bodies of indigenous children have been found in unmarked graves outside

0:58.0

former residential schools in several parts of Canada over the last few months.

1:02.0

We'll be hearing about the fight for justice,

1:05.4

and it's ten years since the death of the singer Amy Winehouse.

1:09.2

I remember being in a cab with her once and someone opened the door through some knickers on the floor and

1:14.7

a load of pills, slammed the door and started taking pictures.

1:17.7

So it looked like it was the contents of her handbag that it spilled out.

1:20.9

You know, when you're trying to deal with all the stuff that Amy was

1:24.0

going through and that's kind of added on top it's not particularly helpful.

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