Brit and Mercury Prize-winning singer Heather Small, Chronic illness, Abortion

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The British-born actor and singer Olivia Newton-John has died at the age of 73. Best remembered for playing the iconic role of Sandy in the musical film Grease. We pay tribute with Stockard Channing who played Rizzo in Grease, and the film critic Karen Krizanovich and Olivia Moore who is currently playing her in the stage version in London's west end. Brit & Mercury prize winner Heather Small on ‘Colour My Life’, her first album in sixteen years. For the album, she teamed up with the London Metropolitan Orchestra to re-imagine all of her Top 10 hits as well as release new songs and covers. What is it like to live with a chronic but hidden illness? Poppy Nash is a textile artist who lives with type 1 diabetes and one of her latest works The Art of Dying 2.0 is a full-scale installation of bedclothes and bedding, examining the experience of living in isolation as a ‘vulnerable’ person through the pandemic. Ione Gamble lives with Crohn’s disease. She’s the founder & editor of the art, fashion and culture publication, Polyester and has now written a book, Poor Little Sick Girls. The overturning of Roe v Wade in the USA has put abortion very much at the top of the news agenda. Our 2019 series in which women spoke, often for the first time, about their abortions seems even more relevant now. Today, a woman we are calling Kerry talks about the abortion she had when she was 18 and her certainty then and now that this was the right choice for her. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.4	Hello, I'm Jessica Crichton, welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:08.7	We're paying tribute to singer, actress and activist, Olivia Newton-John, who was passed
0:13.6	away, aged 73.
0:15.2	There have been so many lovely memories and stories shared about Olivia from family,
0:21.2	friends and colleagues as well, and I'm sure that many of you listening will have your
0:25.5	own favourite song or film of hers that really touched you.
0:29.6	Let us know.
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0:51.4	On social media, we're at BBC Woman's Hour.
0:54.6	We'll be discussing one of Olivia's most iconic moments on screen.
0:58.4	Yes, that scene in Greece where her character Sandy transforms her image and we see her
1:03.4	for the first time in those tight black trousers.
1:07.2	Why is that scene still being talked about more than 40 years later?
1:12.3	We'll be hearing from another one of the stars in that movie, Stockard Channing, who
1:17.0	played Rizzo, who'll be joining us to pay tribute to her co-star.
1:21.4	Also this morning, one of Britain's most distinctive voices will be with me in the studio.
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