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Woman's Hour

Happy Valley & kinship care; Conditions at Eastwood Park women's prison, Declining birthrates in China & Japan, Beyonce

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A new report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons on conditions at Eastwood Park women’s prison has been released today. We speak to Sandra Fieldhouse, lead for women’s prisons at HMI Prisons about the findings. The TV drama Happy Valley has captured the public’s imagination with the final episode of the final series airing this Sunday. Catherine Cawood played by Sarah Lancashire is the policewoman who we see bringing up her grandson Ryan after her daughter took her own life. We hear from one listener who contacted Woman’s Hour about how as a kinship carer she has felt “heard” by the drama and Anita also speaks to Dr Lucy Peake the chief executive of Kinship – the UK’s largest charity for kinship carers. The Grammy's will be held on Sunday in Los Angeles and Beyoncé leads the pack with nine overall nominations. She has also announced her first tour in seven years, which led to the ticket website crashing. The UK concerts are part of a 43-date world tour in support of her Grammy-nominated Renaissance album. Anita discusses her success with Jacqueline Springer, curator Africa and Diaspora: Performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum and music journalist. China and Japan are seeing a marked reduction in their birth rates which will have a major impact on how their societies function in the next decades. With ageing populations and a birth rate well below the 2.1 replacement level observers are predicting significant problems ahead. By the end of the century China is predicted to drop from more than a billion to around 800 million and Japan’s population will drop from 123 million today to around 75 million. Anita Rani discusses the reasons and implications with Dr Yu Jie, Senior Research Fellow on China Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House; and Yoko Ishikura an independent business consultant, professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University who is working with the Japanese Government’s Digital Agency. Presented by Anita Rani Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.4

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Good morning, welcome to Woman's Hour.

0:12.6

Beyoncé announced her an A-Sense World Tour riding a silver stallion in her dear Monte

0:18.0

Bikini and well, the internet melted.

0:20.9

Queen Bay fans have been scrambling to get tickets and they crash the website.

0:25.6

The tickets range from £56 to £199 or for the really swanky seats and I watering £1950

0:33.5

to £2390.

0:35.5

But if you love Beyoncé and can afford it, worth it at twice the price because you will

0:40.3

be able to say you were there.

0:42.8

So this morning I want to hear your stories of the best gig you've ever seen and why it

0:48.1

was so special for you, the one that you can bring out at dinner parties and say I was

0:52.5

there.

0:53.5

And see the prodigy with your best friends after finishing your A levels.

0:56.9

What's your first and most memorable concert with your parents?

1:00.2

Maybe you are the parent who have taken your kids to see Stormsy or a Dale or Little Mix.

1:05.3

How was the experience and what made it so special?

1:08.1

Are you one of the lucky ones who have managed to see Prince, Kate Bush, Oasis, the Smiths,

1:12.7

Tracy Chapman, Bjork, Whitney Houston, Liskoson?

1:15.3

How old were you?

1:16.3

Who were you with?

1:17.3

Did you lie to your parents to get there?

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