Claudia Winkleman, Nurses' strike, Baroness Kidron and Online Safety Bill, Iran diaries, Actor Naomi Ackie, Medieval women

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

How to hang the loo roll to where to store the mustard - TV presenter Claudia Winkleman on the domestic tasks that need to done a certain way in the home. The Health Minister Helen Whately on what the government is doing to resolve the row over nurses' pay. The latest on the online harms bill with Baroness Beeban Kidron, the founder of the 5Rights Foundation which campaigns to make the digital world safer for children and young people. British actor Naomi Ackie on playing Whitney Houston in new film Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance. Following the death in custody of 22 year old Mahsa Amini who had been detained by the Iranian morality police for not wearing her headscarf correctly, we hear the anonymous diaries of female protestors in the country. The discovery of an ancient female burial site in Northamptonshire has been described as one of the most important finds ever discovered in Britain. This woman is thought to be a Christian leader of significant wealth and her jewellery is considered an outstanding example of craftsmanship for this early medieval period. Lyn Blackmore, from the Museum of London and Irina Dumitrescu, Professor for Medieval English Literature at the University of Bonn discuss. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.3	Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, a few highlights from a week of excellent interviews and discussions
0:15.5	support the kettle on, grab a biscuit or two and settle in.
0:19.1	Coming up, the actor Naomi Aki on playing Whitney Houston in a new biopic of her life.
0:24.6	The voices of Iranian women recorded in secret and shared with the BBC will hear about
0:29.8	the most important female burial sites ever discovered in Britain.
0:34.1	Baroness Beban Kidren on the online safety bill and keeping children safe.
0:38.9	And the most important topic of the week, how do you put the low roll on the holder?
0:44.1	Over or under?
0:45.6	Claudia Winkerman and her domestic gripes.
0:48.7	But first, thousands of nurses in England Wales and Northern Ireland went on the first
0:53.8	of a two-day long strike over pay.
0:56.3	Talks with the government earlier this week dramatically collapsed between the head
0:59.8	of the Royal College of Nursing, Pat Cullen and the Health Secretary Steve Barkley.
1:04.5	She accused him of using bully boy tactics and he said the government will not meet
1:09.5	the nurses' pay demands as money would have to be taken from the front line of the NHS.
1:14.3	The Royal College of Nursing wants a 19% pay rise and says below inflation increases are
1:19.8	compromising care by making it hard to attract and retain nurses.
1:24.4	The government argues this proposed salary hike is unaffordable and wants nurses to make
1:29.2	do with what was offered to them under the independent pay review.
1:32.9	With the Conservatives in government for 12 years Emma asked the Health Minister Helen
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