Being Alone / Funerals / Tidying up

Late Night Woman's Hour

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4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Emma Barnett discusses being alone, funerals and tidying up with the Daily Record journalist Anna Burnside, Chidera Eggerue aka the blogger, The Slumflower and author of What a Time to Be Alone and Hetta Howes, lecturer in medieval literature at City University, London.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Welcome to this month's late night, Women's Hour,
0:07.2	where I'm joined by the Daily Record journalist Anna Burnside.
0:10.8	Hello.
0:11.3	Hello.
0:11.8	Chedera Gary, you will like the rawness,
0:14.1	aka the sunflower.
0:15.1	Yes, absolutely.
0:16.5	I should say author of What a Time to Be Alone
0:18.7	and known for the online campaign,
0:21.9	Sagi Boobes Matter.
0:27.3	Heta Hous, lecturer in medieval literature at City University. London, Heta, thank you for joining us.
0:28.2	Thanks for having me.
0:29.3	Shall we start?
0:30.9	Chedira, let's start with you.
0:33.3	More women are embracing being single.
0:34.2	Tell us about this.
0:41.4	So I wrote a book called Watertime to be alone and it essentially digs into our fear of being alone and it allows you to challenge those beliefs and really ask and confront yourself
0:46.7	about why you feel like your company isn't good enough.
0:50.7	And for the most part, we are all under the same conditioning where we've been taught to believe
0:55.4	that we need to seek companionship especially if you are a woman companionship that comes with
1:00.8	marriage is the pinnacle of your womanhood and in a lot of parts of the world a woman's
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