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Woman's Hour

DJ BB, DJ Ritu, Dame Esther Rantzen, Ros Whitehouse, Dr Caroline Boyd, Joy Porter, Dr Mariaelena Huambachano

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On our final day of Listener Week Jessica Creighton brings a host of stories to the table inspired by your requests. Listener Carol is DJ BB. She got in touch to tell us about taking up DJ’ing in her 50s and setting up an event called ‘She’s In Control’. Nearly 60 she tells us about the negative perception of older women in music and the club scene. DJ Ritu is the same age as Carol but has been in the club scene since her 20s. They both join Jess Creighton to dissect the music and club scene through the lens of an older female DJ. Have you decided to retire and then changed your mind months or years later? What made you de-retire? Were the reasons financial? Did you miss the mental stimulation or daily structure or the socialising? Jessica Creighton speaks to Ros Whitehouse who, in her early 70’s, felt society was telling her to retire but within months she realised it was a mistake. Dame Esther Rantzen, founder of the Silver Line Helpline, joins them. We received an email from an anonymous listener who described her experience of being an unwanted child. To discuss this issue, and the impact it can have later in life, Jessica speaks to Dr Caroline Boyd – a peri-natal, chartered clinical psychologist. And we look at matrilineal communities who trace kinship through the female line and can involve the inheritance of property and titles with Woman’s Hour listener and Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History at the University of Hull, Joy Porter and Dr. Mariaelena Huambachano, Environmental Humanities, Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant Photo Credit: Mahaneela

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello, I'm Jessica Criton. Welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:08.6

Hello, welcome to the program. Great to have your company.

0:11.2

Now we're into the final day of Listeners Week, where you tell us

0:15.3

what you want to discuss on the program.

0:17.4

And we have another rich mix of topics this morning,

0:20.8

including what can we learn from matrilineal communities

0:24.2

where property and names are passed down via mothers,

0:27.0

rather than fathers. How does it impact the balance of power in societies?

0:31.4

Also, have you gone back to work after retiring?

0:34.4

One of our listeners left work in her 70s, regretted it,

0:37.8

and so made the decision to de-retire.

0:40.4

We'll be talking to her and Dame Esther Ranson,

0:42.7

who has done lots of work to support older people in the UK.

0:46.4

We'll also be talking to two DJs in their late 50s

0:49.1

to tell us about the shock reaction they often get when they turn up to venues.

0:53.0

Sometimes, be a mistake in as they're cleaner,

0:55.8

rather than the headline DJ.

0:57.7

And how best to deal with the pain of being an unwanted child?

1:01.0

One listener contacted us to describe how knowing her mother didn't want to

1:04.7

still effects her today in adulthood.

1:07.2

As always, if there's anything that you want to comment on this morning,

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