Frankie Bridge, Women's Liberation 2020, 'The Gift'
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Frankie Bridge is best known as one fifth of 'The Saturdays' and outside of music has established herself as a TV presenter & digital influencer. She became a Mind ambassador after opening up about her experiences of anxiety, depression and panic attacks, after her hospitalisation in May 2012. Having initially dealt with these issues in silence, she now sees that asking for help can save your life. She talks to Jane about her new book OPEN which features practical guidance and advice from the psychologist and psychiatrist who helped her.
Fifty years on from the first Women’s Liberation Conference in 1970, Women's Place UK organised one last weekend. 900 women gathered to discuss ending violence against women and sex discrimination and to defend women only spaces and single sex services. We hear from some of the women who were there and Professor Sophie Scott and journalist, Helen Joyce discuss what they hope the event will achieve.
And, Janice Okoh‘s new play ‘The Gift’ is directed by Dawn Walton and was inspired by the story of Sara Forbes Bonetta – born Omoba Aina in 1843. A Yoruba princess, Sara was taken into slavery, released to the Lieutenant-Commander of the HMS Bonetta, then offered as a gift to Queen Victoria. The play is set in both 1862 and the present day, and explores themes of cross-racial adoption, colonialism and what it means to be British. Janice Okoh and Dawn Walton join us to discuss the play.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Ruth Watts
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| 0:31.0 | BBC Sounds Music music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | This is the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello, good morning. |
| 0:39.6 | Today we have Frankie Bridge with us, |
| 0:41.7 | talking very frankly about her own mental health and about a new book she's written on that subject. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll discuss to the Women's Lib conference that was held in London last weekend |
| 0:52.0 | and discuss a play called The Gift which I've got the |
| 0:54.9 | program here actually it says it's an outrageous play about imperialism cross |
| 0:59.6 | racial adoption cultural appropriation T. I saw that the other night. It was |
| 1:05.6 | um it was really interesting. So we'll discuss the play the gift on |
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| 1:15.1 | that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the British Menopause |
| 1:19.0 | Society, and the faculty of sexual and reproductive health care have all written collectively to the government |
| 1:25.6 | to ask it to set up a group to address the shortages of HRT and indeed some contraceptives. |
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