Five frank and fearless moments: a special episode
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Whether its tips from a 91-year-old sex therapist or the upskirting story that sparked a campaign to change the law, the reality of being a female crane driver or Nadiya Hussain on getting a haircut with a hijab, Woman’s Hour is the place to hear these conversations.
In this special podcast-only episode we’re joined by Deborah James from award-winning podcast You, Me and the Big C and writer and activist Scarlett Curtis to dissect some of the best, frankest, most fearless and even funny moments in the programme’s recent history.
They also talk to Jane Garvey about the issues close to their hearts, from living with bowel cancer (and talking about poo all the time) to why it’s essential we all start being more open and honest about our mental health.
We’ve come a long way since the programme was first broadcast in 1946 (with a male presenter!) and this special bonus episode is a great insight into the Woman's Hour world right now. The live radio programme and podcast covers the big stories and issues that matter from a female perspective, with women telling their own stories at its heart.
Follow us on Instagram @BBCWomansHour for more frank and fearless discussions and plenty of inspiring women.
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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. |
| 0:38.0 | Choosing what to watch. Night after night. The flicking through. The endless searching is a nightmare. We want to help you. |
| 0:46.0 | On our brand new podcast off the telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 0:50.2 | Cladiyators! Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming, lovely. |
| 0:55.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Page and me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little |
| 1:01.0 | less searching and a lot more |
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| 1:03.6 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:06.3 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and I want to say a warm welcome to our |
| 1:09.6 | women's our world. |
| 1:10.9 | If you've never heard the program or the |
| 1:12.8 | podcast before you might not know anything about it. Well all I can say is it's |
| 1:17.4 | been around a long time. It's going to be here for a long time and we have |
| 1:21.2 | changed. We are essentially a live radio program and then the |
| 1:24.8 | podcast offering you a female perspective on our world covering all the big |
| 1:30.0 | stories and it has to be said quite a lot of the small but potentially life-changing |
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