Choirs, Sexual Assault on University Campuses, Retirement, Losing Your Belongings
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Presented by Jenni Murray.
A 16 year-old young woman looking at universities came across the St Andrews Survivors page on Instagram with more than 100 stories of sexual assault. She only read a couple but consequently wiped St Andrews off her potential university list. Her mother, a Woman’s Hour listener, wrote to us to saying she felt universities are not doing enough to address this problem, and was concerned with the impact this could have on young women going to university. Jenni is joined by Sara Khan, NUS Vice President for Liberation and Equality for an update on a problem that has been raised many times in the last few years. How successful have universities been in addressing this?
What singing can do for your mental health? We hear how much some listeners are missing being part of choirs, and also from those who have been finding alternative ways to sing as a group online and even outdoors. Jenni discusses the issues with listener Carolyn Acton, Sandra Colston, MD Funky Choir MD and Liesbeth Tip Clinical psychologist at the School of Health and Social Science at University of Edinburgh.
Listener Jan Courtney describes her experience of retiring and finding it hard to adjust to her new life, and describes meeting “juicy crones” –other women of a certain age who are having adventures and doing extraordinary things.
Listener, Eve, lost all of her belongings when she was a student. She would like to know how other people cope when it happens to them. She joins Jenni, along with Pat Plumbridge and Sue Hepworth, to discuss what was lost, how they came to terms with this, the items they miss and how the experience has shaped their attitude to possessions.
Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel
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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, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello Jenny Mary welcoming you to the Woman's Our Podcast for Friday, the 28th of August. |
| 0:42.0 | Good morning, and welcome to the last program in this listener week when all the subjects under discussion have been suggested by you. |
| 0:51.0 | Today the choir during lockdown, Carolyn wrote to tell us how much she's missed |
| 0:57.2 | singing with her friends. Friendship formed as a result of joining a choir. |
| 1:02.1 | Jan Courtney found the adjustment to as a result of joining, a choir. |
| 1:02.8 | Jan Courtney found the adjustment to retirement and a new life really hard. |
| 1:07.6 | She's found comfort in meeting other what she calls juicy crones, |
| 1:11.9 | older women with plenty of life left in them. And Eve told us |
| 1:16.0 | about losing her belongings as a student. How do you recover from losing everything |
| 1:22.1 | you hold dear. |
| 1:24.0 | First though, a message on Instagram from Nicky who was concerned about her 16 year old daughter |
| 1:30.6 | who's been thinking about where she wants to go to university. She had thought |
| 1:35.4 | about St Andrews until she came across the University of St Andrews Survivors Page with more |
| 1:41.7 | than a hundred stories of sexual assault, she immediately crossed |
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