Bananarama, The Baby, Tour De Femmes

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward from Bananarama come into the Woman's Hour studio to talk about how it all started, their friendship and their new album, Masquerade. The Baby is a new TV drama about a woman who suddenly gets a baby. It literally lands in her arms without warning. What's she going to do when she never wanted a baby in the first place? We have Michelle de Swarte who plays 38-year-old Natasha who finds herself with the baby, and Executive Producer Naomi De Pear. This Sunday we've got the Tour de France Femmes. It’s been called a “seminal” moment for women’s cycling because for the first time women will be able to wear the yellow jersey across eight days of gruelling cycling. We have Dani Every from British Cycling and cyclist Elinor Barker, an Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion. This week the government launched its Women's Health Strategy, pledging to take women's health much more seriously, at every stage of a woman's life. Period education is only briefly mentioned, but we talk to Chella Quint, teacher and period campaigner, about her ideas to get it into the school curriculum for boys and girls.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Good morning and welcome to Woman's Hour here on BBC Radio 4.
0:09.0	So today I've got a giant dollop of pot royalty for you.
0:13.2	The who can rock a pair of dungarees on a headscarf
0:16.0	but equally slick and sensational.
0:18.2	Karen and Sarah from Banana Rama
0:20.4	give us the lowdown on their new album, Masquerade.
0:24.2	What would you do if a baby fell out of the sky into your arms?
0:27.6	And what if you absolutely didn't want a baby but the baby was determined to stay?
0:32.2	Well, a new comedy horror takes this on.
0:34.2	The baby, a mini series, deals with the challenges around motherhood and friendships.
0:38.9	So I'd like to hear from you today.
0:40.9	I'd like to hear how your friendships changed after a baby came along.
0:44.5	Did your friend having a baby change the dynamics of your relationship?
0:48.3	Did friendship strengthen or fall away?
0:51.6	We're all familiar with the Tour de France, which champions men cycling.
0:55.5	But how familiar are you with the Tour de Fam?
0:58.6	From the first time, you know, for the first time in over 30 years,
1:02.0	women will have the chance to wear the yellow jersey
1:04.8	across eight days of grueling climbs through the streets of Paris
1:08.1	and the hills of the French countryside.
1:09.9	So what will this do for the sport at grassroots level?
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