Author Melanie Reid, Parenting tips, Intrepid women

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We talk to Journalist and Author Melanie Reid about her memoir where she gives us an honest account about when she fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back. Melanie was paralysed from the top of her chest down she spent almost a year in hospital. To help her recover she turned to the one thing she knew, writing to help her navigate her way through a world that had previously been invisible to her. Her book 'The World I fell Out Of' comes out this week. We hear from a Curator involved in an exhibition about the lives of women who carried out anthropological fieldwork around the world in the early twentieth century. Six are being featured in a new exhibition at The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. What queries and problems do you have when it comes to parenting? Author and Psychotherapist Philippa Perry talks about her latest publication ‘The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read’ and answers your questions about how to parent well and give children a healthy start. Producer: Sej Asar

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jane Garvey and thank you for downloading the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:03.5	It's Tuesday 5th March 2019. On the podcast today, we'll hear about some
0:08.4	intrepid women travellers from the early part of the 20th century.
0:12.8	You'll get parenting advice from the psychotherapist, Philippa Perry.
0:16.1	And we start with an interview with Melanie Reed, who also features at the end of our podcast today.
0:21.6	So there's more from her and we hope from our husband Dave as well, who's with us now.
0:26.0	And I think he's going to be willing to talk. We'll see. I'm looking at him.
0:29.0	No, well, maybe. Maybe he'll be willing to talk towards the end of the podcast.
0:33.7	And Melanie, as many of you all know, is a columnist in the Saturday Times magazine.
0:38.8	And her column is called Spinal Column, isn't it Melanie? Actually, that's what it's called.
0:42.9	Yes.
0:43.6	Okay. And Melanie started writing it after a writing accident how many years ago?
0:48.8	Nine years ago.
0:49.8	Right. So you can hear that interview as part of the Woman's Hour programme.
0:54.4	And then at the end of the podcast,
0:56.0	there'll be more from her, including some of your reaction to our conversation.
0:59.4	Here we go with the live show.
1:00.8	Good morning. And one of our guests this morning is the Brilliant Times columnist,
1:04.5	Melanie Reed will talk to her in a moment. Also on the show today, Philippa Perry,
1:08.8	the psychotherapist who's written a new book about parenting.
1:12.5	It's called The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read.
1:16.0	And Philippa has said to me that she'll take on just about any parenting issue today.
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