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Woman's Hour

Archie Panjabi, Cricket, Energy management, The untold story of parliament’s working women

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The actress Archie Panjabi made her film debut in East is East and then went on to play Pinky in Bend it Like Beckham. She won the Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in “The Good Wife”. She joins Nuala to discuss her latest role in Hijack, a thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked plane in real time across seven hours and seven episodes. The English Cricket Board has been told to secure equal pay for its male and female cricketers by 2030 as part of the report by The Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC). The report also found that racism, sexism and class-based discrimination are widespread and deep-rooted within the game. Sports commentator and journalist Georgie Heath joins Nuala. Do you breakdown your ‘to do’ list into hours and minutes? What if you broke down your day into how much energy you had instead? For years people with medical conditions like M.E and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have used Energy Management Techniques. Could we learn a thing or two by using the techniques, even if we don’t have extreme fatigue? Nuala talks to Lauren Walker, an Occupational Therapist and Charlie Thorne, who was a city lawyer before she became burnt out. In 1911 Emily Wilding Davison hid in Parliament so she would appear on the census as having been there. But far before her, there were women working within Parliament who held much more power and influence than you might expect. Mari Takayanagi is a parliamentary archivist, and has written a book alongside Elizabeth Hallam-Smith that tells the stories of these unknown working women, from cleaners to housekeepers to typists.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lucinda Montefiore Studio Manager: Sue Maillot

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.9

Hello, this is Nulem Agoveren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:10.0

Today I'm wondering how are your energy levels?

0:13.4

Did you start this morning thinking about how much you have to do?

0:17.2

Do you have time to do it all?

0:18.8

Well, two of my guests would say we need to change that thinking.

0:23.0

So don't think about time management but think about energy management.

0:27.3

Do you recognize what fuels or perhaps drains your energy?

0:31.0

And does it affect how you prioritize the tasks you need to do?

0:35.1

Are you good, basically, at listening to your body?

0:37.5

Well those of you with certain medical conditions may have been doing this for a long time,

0:41.9

knowing how much you can push without hitting a wall of tiredness.

0:45.7

But for others, perhaps not as attuned to that way of thinking, this could be a game

0:49.6

changer.

0:50.6

I saw one tip that I'd like to implement.

0:53.1

Scheduling time purely for thinking or perhaps for doing nothing at all.

0:56.9

No meeting, no events, chores, just have that part of your diary so that energy levels

1:01.8

can be resuscitated and revived.

1:05.2

So I'd like to hear how do you manage on days that your energy levels are low and how

1:10.2

does it compare with what you achieve when they are high?

1:13.4

I want to hear your stories, I want to hear your tips.

1:16.2

That number is 84844 to text us.

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