Bernadine Evaristo, Refuges, Caring for a person with dementia, Beauty tips in lockdown, Jayde Adams
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Caring for a partner with dementia while isolating in lockdown - former nurse Liz Brookes whose husband has vascular dementia, and Chris Black whose wife has Pick's disease discuss.
Bernadine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for 'Girl, Woman, Other'. Jenni talks to her about two of her novels 'The Emperor’s Babe' and 'Mr Loverman', both have just been re-published.
Beauty tips for nails, eyebrows and waxing during lockdown with Sarah Jossel, Beauty Director of The Sunday Times Style magazine.
Will Elizabeth Warren be Joe Biden’s running mate now he’s committed to a female US vice-president? Jane speaks to Dr Kelly Dittmar from the Centre for American Women and Politics.
How are refuges coping with the impact of Covid-19? Tamara White is area manager of 10 refuges in London.
The comedian Jayde Adams has been a fishmonger, a nightclub bouncer and an Adele impersonator. She talks about her shows, Serious Black Jumper, and Couch Cabaret.
Bailey Tomkinson reached number 2 in the itunes Video Music Charts without a record label or management. She sings live in the studio.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | A good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Out. This week we've got |
| 0:08.6 | the Booker Prize winner, Bernadine Everisto, on how her earlier works are being republished |
| 0:14.2 | and also the books that she'd recommend during lockdown. We'll look too at how women's |
| 0:19.5 | refuges are coping with COVID-19. We'll ask who Joe Biden's running mate is going to |
| 0:25.5 | be and we'll discuss the very important issue of eyebrow management during the lockdown. |
| 0:31.4 | Be very, very careful with the brow hairs on the inner corners of the brow, so essentially |
| 0:35.9 | nearest your nose because those are the ones that take longest to go back and that can |
| 0:40.3 | make you look angry in about 30 seconds or excited or sad and which is not what we're |
| 0:45.2 | trying to do. I honestly can't remember the last time I looked |
| 0:48.1 | excited, so I think that's unlikely in my case. So some important stuff on weekend |
| 0:53.3 | women's out this week and that item as well. Actually that was interesting genuinely. |
| 0:57.6 | You can hear that a little bit later and we've got music too from the Cornish singer-songwriter |
| 1:02.3 | Bailey Tomkinson. First it is week four of lockdown and this week we |
| 1:07.0 | looked at caring and I talked to Liz Brooks who's 64 and she's looking after her husband |
| 1:12.5 | Mike who is 77 and Mike's had vascular dementia for nine years they live in Lancashire. Chris |
| 1:19.9 | Black also talked to us he is in his mid 50s he's looking after his wife Helen who is 50 |
| 1:25.8 | and has pic's disease. Now they live in horn church in Essex and have been together for |
| 1:31.4 | just over 30 years. Helen worked in graphic design. Chris told me he was finding it easier |
| 1:37.8 | actually perhaps unexpectedly without outside carers coming in. |
| 1:42.5 | We've been in this situation for just two or three years now so all of this is quite |
| 1:47.5 | new and I'm quite nervous talking to about it because it's quite an emotional situation |
| 1:52.8 | but we've been very fortunate in that we've had various carers come in to help me to |
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