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Woman's Hour

Hadley Freeman, The Power of Crying, Staying in Touch with Children when you're in Prison

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Hadley Freeman has written a memoir, House of Glass, the story of her Jewish relatives across the 20th century, her grandmother and great uncles who fled Poland for Paris after the anti-Jewish pogroms in 1918. We discuss the pros and cons of crying particularly if you're in public. What's it like trying to stay in touch with your children when you're in prison? And what happens when you're on the outside again? Jane talks to Kelly who is in a documentary about women in prison, and to the governor of the prison, HMP Foston Hall in Derbyshire.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Hadley Freeman Interviewed guest: Keith Brymer-Jones Interviewed guest: Susie Orbach Interviewed guest: Joanna Crosse Interviewed guest: Kelly Interviewed guest: Andrea Black Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Woman's Our Podcast.

0:02.5

Good morning.

0:03.5

Today we're talking about crying.

0:05.0

If you're someone who cries a lot, actually enjoys a good cry, finds it positive.

0:10.0

We'd love to hear from you this morning.

0:12.0

We're going to be talking amongst other people to Susie all back about the power of crying.

0:16.0

How often you should do it.

0:18.0

Here's an interesting comment from a listener on our Instagram account.

0:22.0

Joanna says, I cry at any opportunity.

0:26.0

I'm not embarrassed.

0:27.0

I think it's just human.

0:29.0

And here she cuts to the chase and says, I've noticed that non-criers tend to develop quite large bags under their eyes.

0:37.0

Unexpressed emotions are not healthy.

0:40.0

It's a bit troubling for me because I can't remember the last time I cried.

0:43.0

And actually I think she's right, my eye bags are something to behold.

0:47.0

Also on the program today, something really important about women prisoners.

0:50.0

Just how do they keep in contact with their children?

0:54.0

You might well have been watching Prison, the very impressive Channel 4 series.

0:58.0

About the Women's Prison, Foster and Hall.

1:01.0

That actually ends tonight.

1:02.0

And we'll discuss that on the program this morning.

1:05.0

First though, our guest is the journalist and writer Hadley Freeman,

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