Anorexia, Iowa Democrats, Churchill's Cook

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We speak to Hannah Pearson who's 25 and has anorexia and bulimia. She recently asked for help from a specialist NHS eating disorder service close to where she lives but because she isn’t considered underweight enough she’s been told she has to wait 18 months. We hear from Hannah as well as Agnes Ayton from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Last night, Americans living in Iowa had their say on who they think is the best Democrat candidate to beat Donald Trump. Women candidates include Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. We speak to Dr Anne-Marie Angelo, originally from Virginia, who’s now Senior Lecturer in American History at Sussex University in Brighton.

There was a time when domestic service was the single biggest employer of women in the UK but many of their stories have been forgotten. Author and historian Annie Gray is putting things right with her new book, Victory in the Kitchen. It tells the story of Georgina Landemare’s journey from scullery maid to the much-admired cook of the Churchill family. She's joined by Edwina Brocklesby, Georgina’s granddaughter.

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
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0:41.0	It is a very good morning to you. A little bit later in the program we'll talk
0:45.0	about what happened in Iowa last night with a particular focus of course on the
0:49.2	female candidates who are hoping to take on Donald Trump. We'd also hear an interview with the
0:54.8	director of Four Summer, the documentary that won a BAFDA at that ceremony on
1:00.1	Sunday night. It's a very, very powerful documentary about the civil war in
1:04.0	Syria in particular about the bombing of the civilian population of Aleppo so you
1:08.9	can hear from the director on the program today. We'll also have an interview about Winston Churchill's cook, a
1:14.8	woman called Georgina Landomer. Her granddaughter is with us in the studio as well. I
1:19.6	think I can say hello to you. It's Eddie, isn't it? Good morning to you Eddie.
1:22.1	Morning. You do triathlons and it's
1:25.5	fair to say that you wouldn't have been able to train for triathlon on the food your
1:28.4	grandmother was cooking for Winston Churchill, would you? To put it mildly,
1:32.1	she liked a bit of cream Georgina, didn't she?
1:34.6	She had her vegetables too.
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