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Woman's Hour

Caitlin Moran on How to Build a Girl. How to change your career. The school's fruit and veg scheme.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

How To Build A Girl – based on Caitlin Moran’s non-fiction memoir of the same name - has now been turned into a film It introduces us to Johanna Morrigan, a young Wolverhampton local who’s struggling to get to grips with the “incredible unfolding” that comes with puberty. The screenplay is written by the woman herself and was filmed in and around the City. She joins Jenni to talk about what it means to see her story on screen.

Do you want to change your life for the better? This summer Woman’s Hour will be helping you work out how. How to change career, how to be a better friend, how to end your relationship well and how to make time for yourself, guilt-free. We’ll bring together women with expertise and experience to guide you through some of those tricky turning points and blocked paths. Listen out for the How To series over the next few weeks..

Today the key things you need to do to achieve both the immediate or the long term career change - identifying your transferable skills, working out the financial implications; weighing up the pro’s and con’s, polishing up your online presence – and taking the leap.

Plus why England's School Fruit and Veg scheme will be back in September, thanks to mum turned campaigner Hannah Cameron McKenna . We'll hear about why she got involved in the campaign and from Zoe Griffiths a registered nutritionist about why eating more fruit and veg as a child is so important.

Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest; Caitlin Moran Guest; Sarah Ellis Guest; Samantha Clarke Guest; Lucy Kellaway Guest; Hannah Cameron McKenna Guest; Zoe Griffiths

Transcript

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Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

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telly we share what we've been watching

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Fladiated.

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

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BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.

0:34.4

Hello Jenny Wari welcoming you to the Women's Hour Podcast for Friday, July the 17th.

0:40.6

Good morning. In today's program the first in a new series of how to change your life

0:46.3

for the better. This morning it's how to change your job or career if you don't

0:51.8

love the one you have. The mothers who've campaigned for

0:55.9

the government school fruit and veg scheme to be reinstated it was suspended in

1:00.3

March it will return in September.

1:04.0

And the serial, the final episode of Why Mommy Swears.

1:08.0

Now, you may have read Kathleen Moran's memoir How to Build a Girl in 2014. It's the more or less true story of how she, a

1:17.1

16 year old Wolverhampton girl, struggles to get to grips with what she

1:21.6

describes as the incredible unfolding that comes with

1:25.2

puberty. She transforms herself and sets off for London to become a journalist writing about

1:31.4

popular music. Well she's now written the screenplay for the

1:35.3

film of the book. Her character, Johanna Morrigan, who changes her name to

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