Angela Rippon, Jamie Bernstein on Maestro, Scorchio! The history of The Weather Girl
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
After being the latest celebrity contestant to be voted off Strictly Come Dancing at Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom, Angela Rippon tells Emma Barnett about forming a lifelong friendship with her 28-year-old dance partner Kai Waddington. At 79, she was the oldest competitor in the series and has wowed the judges and the audience with her flexible dance moves. Sam Fraser started working as a standby weather presenter for BBC South in 2012. When a fan club for her bottom surfaced online and she became a topic on the YouTube channel, Babes of Britain, she soon realised her public reception was not on par with her male counterparts. She turned to stand-up comedy as an outlet – and compiled the experiences of women in her job to produce an Edinburgh Fringe Show, as well as Scorchio! The Story of the Weather Girl, which is on BBC Radio 4 this week. Yvette Greenway-Mansfield won a record settlement of at least £1 million from the NHS in September after her vaginal mesh implant following a hysterectomy caused traumatic complications. We hear her story and about her ongoing campaign on behalf of other sufferers. The legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein’s eldest daughter Jamie talks to Emma about her father and the new film about his life, Maestro, which is released this week. And Noam Sagi talks about waiting for news of his mother currently being held hostage in the Israeli-Gaza war.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Tim Heffer
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| 0:36.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:41.0 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:43.3 | I hope the weekend was a good one. |
| 0:45.3 | Whatever you got up to, for Strictly Come Dancing fans, it was the end of the road for Angela |
| 0:49.7 | Ripon, the show's oldest contestant. But as you'll hear shortly, Angela wants us all dancing |
| 0:55.0 | and for us to see age as a number on the page. |
| 0:58.0 | I spoke to her just before coming on air, |
| 1:00.0 | and one element that jumped out in our conversation |
| 1:02.0 | was the importance of having |
| 1:03.4 | friends of different ages to bring a whole new nuance to your life and a whole different |
| 1:08.0 | perspective. Her dance partner, Kai Wodrington, is aged 28 and 51 years younger than Angela. A lot of people |
| 1:16.3 | making a lot of that online since she was voted off the program and now they're |
| 1:21.9 | great mates and on this cold November Monday morning I thought |
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