Black Narcissus - Amanda Coe, Cerys Matthews & Liz Berry, Xmas coping strategies, Power List Carolyn Cobbold,
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
New BBC three-part drama Black Narcissus tells the story of a group of Anglo-Catholic nuns who travel to the Himalayas to set up a school in an abandoned clifftop palace, which was once known as the 'House of Women'. Adapted from Rumer Godden's 1939 novel, the writer Amanda Coe joins Jane to discuss.
Coping strategies over the Christmas period with the psychologist Laverne Antrobus.
Carolyn Cobbold is No. 10 on the Woman's Hour Power List 2020: Our Planet. She's worked tirelessly to quite literally change the shape of coastal defence, leading the Manhood Peninsula Partnership to secure funding for the largest coastal realignment project in Europe.
The musician and DJ Cerys Matthews tells us about her latest album 'We Come From the Sun' which involved collaborating with the Hidden Orchestra and 10 poets. She's joined by the award winning poet Liz Berry who talks about her track Christmas Eve.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and welcome to the Women's Our Podcast on Monday, the 21st of December 2020. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, good morning. How are you? Probably about as chirpy as we are so I can guarantee you no |
| 0:44.4 | fojolity between now and 11 o'clock this morning |
| 0:47.8 | we are going to talk about the rumor-goden novel Black Narcissus |
| 0:52.3 | which is in the very capable hands of the screenwriter |
| 0:55.4 | Amanda Koh being turned into a brilliant BBC TV adaptation in that period of time between |
| 1:02.3 | Christmas and New Year and Amanda joins us this morning on the program. |
| 1:05.0 | We've also got the poet Liz Berry and Kerris Matthews |
| 1:09.0 | and you know they will both be excellent |
| 1:11.0 | and we'll talk to about well this is important actually the |
| 1:14.8 | largest coastal realignment project in Europe is also on our agenda today please |
| 1:21.0 | please contact us she said with a note of desperation in her voice, |
| 1:24.9 | someone contact me. 844. That's the text number. Text will be charged at your |
| 1:30.3 | standard message rate. Check with your network provider for the exact cost of that. |
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