Author Wendy Holden. Sexual violence in rural areas. How to make time for yourself
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Marion ‘Crawfie’ Crawford was a young Scottish trainee teacher who wanted to educate children in the slums of Edinburgh but ended up as governess to a young Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret. How much did she influence and shape their lives? Writer Wendy Holden on how she's brought her story to life, in a new novel ‘The Governess: She Came from Nothing and Raised a Queen ’.
Earlier this year Rhea, a sixteen year old girl from Shetland, put out an appeal using an anonymous app, to anyone who wanted to share their personal stories about sexual violence. Within 24 hours she'd had more than 60 responses. Rhea, and Lisa Ward, manager of Rape Crisis Shetland, talk about what those stories say about where they live.
And in the next in our summer series of How to guides, we discuss the art of stepping off the treadmill and carving out time for yourself. How can you minimise feelings of guilt and maximise bliss moments? What are the best ways to politely but firmly say no?
Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; Wendy Holden Guest; Deborah Joseph Guest; Louise Pentland Guest; Celia Dodd
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey and welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast from Friday, August 21st, 2020. |
| 0:11.0 | At BBC Woman's Hour is where you'll find us on social media and this morning we've got some |
| 0:15.6 | really, really good guests. We're talking in a big chunk of the programme towards the end of it |
| 0:19.6 | today about how we learn to make time for ourselves. How do you do that efficiently? Without harming |
| 0:26.4 | maybe the others in your life. Let's just talk about how we can just carve out that bit of time |
| 0:31.4 | in our day, in our week, to indulge ourselves, maybe not even indulge, maybe that's the wrong |
| 0:36.3 | word, but just be ourselves and be in the moment and do the stuff we really enjoy. I'll guess on |
| 0:40.9 | that item include Louise Pendland, bestselling author and mum influencer, somebody who's huge on |
| 0:48.2 | Instagram so she's with us this morning. We'll also talk to the brilliant author Wendy Holden, |
| 0:52.6 | whose new novel is called The Governance and I really enjoyed this is about Marion Crawford, |
| 0:57.5 | the woman who taught the Queen and was then ostracised by the Royal Family. Something happened, |
| 1:03.2 | we'll find out what in the company of Wendy Holden a little bit later in the programme. |
| 1:07.6 | First though, we start with this. Earlier this year, Rhea, a 16 year old girl from Shetland, |
| 1:12.8 | put out an anonymous appeal to anyone who wanted to share their experiences of sexual violence. |
| 1:18.6 | Within 24 hours, she'd had more than 60 replies. I've been talking to Rhea and to Lisa Ward, |
| 1:25.4 | the manager of Rape Crisis Shetland. First of all, I asked Rhea why she'd wanted to do this. |
| 1:31.7 | Well, it started during lockdown. I kept seeing a lot of posts on social media of the Me Too campaign |
| 1:38.3 | and I was sitting thinking, being up in the island that I am, I don't see a lot that comes from |
| 1:44.8 | Shetland, so I sat down and I was thinking what I could do to do something up here, |
| 1:51.6 | and that's when the idea came into my head and I was originally going to do it just a few |
| 1:55.8 | people that I knew stories, but I thought that there'd be a lot of other people that would want |
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