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Woman's Hour

Fiona Govan, Louisa McGeehan, Tom Bennett, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, Namulanta Kombo, Helen Wood.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We talk to journalist Fiona Govan based in Madrid who writes for Olive Press about the controversy surrounding a new ad campaign in Spain proclaiming “All Bodies are Beach Bodies”. Posters including women of all shapes and sizes, including women with mastectomies with a slogan “Summer Belongs to Us too.” Helpful messaging? Or “absurd” as some opposition politicians claim which is creating “a problem where it doesn’t exist”. Should children who misbehave be excluded permanently from school? Recently, Southwark Council in London hit the headlines when it urged its headteachers to sign up to an ‘Inclusion Charter’ to avoid school exclusions. Some campaigners argue that excluding troubled children leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and puts them at risk of becoming part of a world of crime. Others say that it is necessary to exclude pupils who are disrupting the education of others or pose a danger to staff and other children. Anita is joined by Louisa McGeehan, chief executive of Just for Kids Law, a legal charity for children and young people; Tom Bennett, School Behaviour Advisor to the Department for Education, and Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, headteacher of Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham. We talk to Namulanta Kombo about her award winning podcast “Dear Daughter” which started with her idea of writing letters to her young daughter with advice for life. And the writer and comedian Helen Wood who wrote shows such as ‘The Usherettes’ and ‘The National Trust Fan Club’ tells us about her latest production ‘Let’s Talk About Philip’ which explores the the mystery and secret surrounding her brother’s death 32 years ago. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Sue Maillot

Transcript

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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.

0:10.4

Good morning and welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour.

0:13.2

We're sharing life advice this morning and I'll tell you why,

0:16.8

because a brilliant new podcast called Dear Daughter has just one podcast of the year.

0:22.0

It's where people write letters to their daughters giving them advice.

0:25.7

Everything from the sublime, the serious and the wonderfully ridiculous.

0:30.0

So this morning, I'm asking you to do the same.

0:32.8

What piece of advice would you give your daughter, whether you have one or not,

0:36.8

advice about money, marriage, fashion, hair removal?

0:40.8

We've had a few tweets already on this this morning and Bex messaged in to say,

0:45.4

to her daughter, don't play down your intelligence just because people are intimidated by intelligent women.

0:52.0

Try to avoid getting into debt in brackets, mortgage excluded and keep stopping

0:56.4

climate change in mind in everything you do.

0:59.2

Then Celia tweeted to say, everyone lives life at their own pace and don't bother with tiny plants.

1:06.0

And Lucy tweeted to say, go and see bands while you and they are both young.

1:10.8

I saw our half for the first time this year aged 47, made me wish I'd seen them 35 years ago.

1:17.8

Wish I'd seen them this year.

1:19.2

So your advice, please, what would you tell your daughter this morning?

1:23.1

You can text me 84844.

1:25.6

The text will be charged at your standard message rate.

1:28.9

So make sure you check with your network provider.

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