Debbie McGee and Dr Naomi Paxton, author Angie Thomas, Nurse Sarah Link who lived in a caravan for 9 months to protect her mum
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
To mark the centenary of the infamous ‘sawing-a-woman-in-half’ illusion, Emma Barnett talks to Debbie McGee and Dr Naomi Paxton, also to author Angie Thomas about her new book "Concrete Rose" the prequel to her bestseller "The Hate U Give", Joan Bakewell talks about her legal challenge over the government's decision to delay the second dose of the Covid 19 Vaccine for elderly and we hear how the the nurse Sarah Link lived in a caravan for nine months outside her family home in Cradley Heath in the West Midlands to protect her mum from catching Covid.
The programme includes a clip of Baroness Boothroyd courtesy of Sky News
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's Emma Barnett here. Welcome to the Woman's Ave podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | Good morning. As you will have heard in some of our news bulletins and we did promise |
| 0:13.2 | this on yesterday's program to keep you updated about the story of Lisa Montgomery, the |
| 0:17.8 | only female inmate on federal death row in America. She has now been executed for the |
| 0:22.7 | murder of a pregnant woman after a last minute stay of execution was lifted by the US Supreme |
| 0:28.0 | Court, making her the first female federal inmate to be executed by the US government for |
| 0:32.9 | nearly 70 years, 67 to be precise. For more context as to why her death penalty was being |
| 0:38.5 | hotly debated, you can hear from a legal professor who advised her legal team who spoke to us |
| 0:43.4 | on yesterday's program and that discussion all available on sounds. |
| 0:48.2 | But on today's program, we're going to hear from a nurse who ended up living in a caravan |
| 0:53.2 | in her driveway with her husband for nine months in a bid to keep her mum safe who was living |
| 0:58.3 | with them. And this has prompted the question, and I want to put this to you today, what have |
| 1:02.9 | you done to follow the rules? Away from breaking of the rules, which we have had to and will |
| 1:08.1 | continue to focus on, we want to shine a light on what lengths you've now gone to to keep |
| 1:12.8 | to these new restrictions, to keep those you love and those you don't even know safe. |
| 1:18.0 | You may not have lived in a caravan for nine months, but you will have your own tales |
| 1:21.8 | of sacrifice and innovation. I'm not a person who was casting my mind back this morning |
| 1:26.4 | too, that crazed. Do you remember the cuddle curtain at the beginning of lockdown, that |
| 1:30.0 | big plastic sheet some people were using to try and have a hug and embrace with those |
| 1:35.4 | that they loved and you know, mistouching? Perhaps you fashioned one of those. Do tell |
| 1:39.9 | us. You can text on 84844, text will be charged at your standard message rate or make |
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