Helen O'Hara, International Day of the Girl, photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind on Ukraine

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Royal College of Nursing, the world's biggest nurses' union, has a culture of bullying and misogyny, according to an internal report. Jessica Creighton speaks to Pat Cullen, the General Secretary and Chief Executive of the RCN who commissioned the report. Helen O’Hara is a violinist and composer who plays the ear catching violin on the massive No.1 hit Come on Eileen. She joins Jessica to explain why she chose to become a key member of Dexy’s Midnight Runners rather than join a symphony orchestra, how she picked up her violin again after a long break to raise her sons, and the story behind the title of her memoir – What’s She Like. Today is International Day of the Girl, a global day of action for girls rights. The CEO of the charity Plan International, Rose Caldwell is the CEO of Plan International UK & the Welsh Social Justice Minister Jane Hutt will join Jessica Creighton to discuss how to get more women into leadership and where we are with achieving gender equality. At the end of the Coperni show during Paris Fashion Week, two men spray painted a white dress onto model Bella Hadid. After a few minutes the dress moved with Hadid’s body like a regular, fitted fabric as she walked down the runway. Will we all be spraying on our clothes in the future? We speak to sustainable fashion journalist Megan Doyle to find out more. The war in Ukraine may have reached its culmination with the Russian invasion earlier this year, but for people living on the front lines, the fighting has been constant since 2014. Photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind joins Jessica to discuss her work and new upcoming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.6	Hello, I'm Jessica Criton. Welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:09.8	Good morning and welcome to the program. Now, there are some songs where all you need
0:13.6	to hear is the intro and you instantly recognize it. Not only that, but it transports you
0:18.8	back to a happy memory, like this for example. You remember that one right? Come on
0:33.2	I-Lean by Dexies and Midnight Runners. The pop rock group had a number one hit with it
0:37.9	back in the 80s and the woman who played that iconic violin segment during the song intro,
0:42.5	Helen O'Hara, will be with me in the studio. We'll be discussing her time in the band as
0:46.7	well as her new memoir, which gives a unique insight into life as a professional violinist.
0:51.6	So what are your favourite song intros? The ones where you don't even need to wait for
0:55.2	the song to get going before it takes you back to a special place or reminds you of a special
1:00.5	time. One of my favourite tracks has got to be Fast Car by Tracy Chapman and as soon as
1:05.9	I hear that intro guitar riff, it just takes me back to a time where my mum would play
1:11.1	the album throughout the house where she'd be washing up or doing chores or ironing
1:16.5	or something like that. It's such a happy memory for me, but tell me about your favourites.
1:21.2	You can text us on 84844 text will be charged at your standard message rate. On social
1:26.9	media we're at BBC Woman's Hour, you can always email us through our website as well and
1:32.0	on WhatsApp we are 03700-100-4, that's 03700-100-4. Remember that data charges may apply so you
1:42.3	might want to use Wi-Fi if you can. Also on the programme, did you hear about that spray
1:47.3	on dress? The video of Supermodel Bella Hadid being spray painted on a runway at Paris Fashion
1:53.8	Week when Viral last week does it mean we'll all be doing the same in the future and how
1:58.9	environmentally friendly is spray on fabric anyway? We'll be speaking to a fashion journalist
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