Clemency Burton-Hill, V&A African fashion exhibition, Liverpool Mayor Wendy Simon, Presidential Inauguration.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Emma Barnett with Clemency Burton-Hill's first interview since she suffered a brain haemorrhage a year ago today. She talks about how music has helped her ongoing recovery, and how she has learnt to speak again. Sindiso Khumalo & Dr Christine Checinska on the V&A museum's African fashion exhibition, the new interim mayor of Liverpool Wendy Simon talks about being thrust into the role last month as Covid 19 cases were rising exponentially and as Joe Biden assumes the US Presidency we hear from Sarah Elliot from Republicans Overseas UK and Joan Walsh, the National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation and a CNN political contributor.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello, it's Emma here with today's episode. podcasts. world at the moment, not least the UK recording its highest daily COVID death toll yesterday |
| 0:55.8 | and people still being separated from their nearest and dearest, unable to see them, let alone hug |
| 1:01.2 | or kiss. But today we bring you a remarkable story of hope, recovery and love. |
| 1:08.2 | Clemency Burton Hill may be a name you're familiar with. She was formerly of this parish, |
| 1:12.1 | making documentaries for Radio 4, a Radio 3 presenter, |
| 1:15.7 | and host of the BBC Sounds Podcast classical fix. The world was at her feet when suddenly her world went dark. |
| 1:24.0 | She suffered a serious brain bleed, some more details on that shortly, |
| 1:28.0 | and fell into a 17-day coma. |
| 1:31.0 | When she awoke, she couldn't move or speak, despite being able to understand everything |
| 1:36.2 | everyone around her was saying. |
| 1:38.6 | It was agony. |
| 1:40.3 | Today she joins us for her first broadcast interview. She only relearned to talk in a way others could understand more coherently a mere |
| 1:47.4 | eight weeks ago and it is a remarkable conversation truly you'll hear it next but what I want to ask you today is this |
| 1:55.1 | how have you overcome adversity or perhaps how as someone you've loved and been |
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