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Woman's Hour

Dogs of Lockdown; Teachers assaulted by pupils; Family reconciliation; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

With the surge in people getting dogs during lockdown, Emily Dean, broadcaster and host of ‘Walking The Dog with Emily Dean’ joins Anita to discuss her shih-tzu called Raymond, the trend for ‘pandemic puppies’ and the unique relationship between women and their dogs.

Newspaper reports from the weekend suggest that Prince Charles, Harry, William and Kate spent a couple of hours at Frogmore Cottage after the funeral of Prince Phillip on Saturday, presumably hoping to clear the air after what has been a turbulent time for the Royal family. Whatever your background - family rifts can be very painful, sometimes lasting years and often beyond anyone's memory of why they originally fell out. What should you do if you want to reconcile? How do you make that initial approach? Anita is joined by Dee Holmes, Family Counsellor with Relate and Mamta Saha, practising psychologist.

More than fifteen thousand people have emailed their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in school as pupils or past pupils on the ‘Everyone‘s Invited’ website but what about assault by pupils towards teachers? We hear one female teacher’s experience of being sexually assaulted at school, and from Jennifer Moses the National Official for equality and training at the Teaching Union the NASUWT.

300 years ago this month, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu deliberately infected her three year old daughter with a dose of smallpox – in other words she inoculated her – and was the first to do so in the West. Her role in the race to halt the spread of the virus was largely unacknowledged at the time. She should be recognised for the pioneer that she was says Jo Willett who has written her biography ‘The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu’.

Transcript

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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, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from podcasts. about family bust-ups or rather how you reconcile after one. It's being reported that Prince Charles,

0:56.0

William, Harry and Kate all went to Frogmore Cottage and spoke for two hours after the funeral

1:01.2

of Prince Philip. So how do you begin to build bridges

1:04.2

with your family after a major falling out? Is this something you've been

1:07.9

through? How did you go about making amends? What are the first steps and how do you

1:12.1

take that first step when there's a ton of anger, resentment and sadness?

1:17.0

Get in touch for the show.

1:18.0

We are going to talk about something we do as a nation better than most others.

1:22.0

We're going to discuss our pets this

1:24.0

morning, or more specifically, our dogs. I'm a new dog owner and can't quite believe how much

1:29.8

love I have

1:35.0

a love I have for my furry little scruff bag,

1:32.0

even when she's rolled around in fox poo.

1:34.0

Neither me nor my husband have ever had a pet in our lives

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