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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:22.3 | That is the sound of Sally Bowles played by Liza Monelli in the film Cabaret, |
0:27.6 | Screaming Under a Bridge. Do you ever feel like screaming? Do you do it? |
0:32.7 | Signantly into a cushion or out loud and perhaps it surprised you. |
0:37.1 | Made you feel better. You weren't aware of your own volume of your own power of your own |
0:41.6 | roar. Last month, a group of women in America decided to get all of their |
0:45.6 | pandemic frustrations off their chests by shouting in a group in the middle of a football field. |
0:50.6 | It's inspired other women around America to do the same. |
0:54.1 | I'll be talking to a woman here in the UK who also took to screaming with her daughters |
0:58.5 | during the pandemic. But what about you? Do you scream if you don't? What do you do instead? |
1:04.6 | How do you get it out? Whatever it is, you need to get out. You can text me here at |
1:09.4 | Woman's Hour on 84844. Of course, whatever you want to say, I suppose some of you |
1:14.7 | may send us some of your screams on social media or on voice notes. We can hear those. |
1:18.4 | On social media, it is at BBC Woman's Hour or email us through our website. Of course, |
1:23.4 | there'll be some of you thinking, well, I couldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. I didn't |
1:26.4 | don't dare do that because of the tropes around hysterical women in the way that we're viewed if we |
1:31.0 | slightly uncontrolled or unhinged. But I think hearing that scream this morning, |
1:35.8 | it may inspire or it may revile you. You tell me, where are you about screaming? Let me know. |
1:41.1 | Also, on today's programme, the Health Secretary so-called war on cancer and how it affects |
1:46.4 | breast cancer. And meet Lazy Susan, the comedy duo dubbed two of the funniest women in the UK. |
1:52.9 | All that to come. But first, as you've been hearing in the news, Downing Street has said the |
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