Hostage negotiator Nicky Perfect, Sarah Beeny, Chelsea Women Manager Emma Hayes, Mothers with bipolar, Bad lists
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Nicky Perfect has spent most of her life in highly fraught and dangerous situations, working as a hostage negotiator. Now she’s written about her experience in a new book: Crisis: True Stories of my Life as a Hostage Negotiator. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about some of the things she learnt along the way.
The TV presenter Sarah Beeny has spent much of her life in the unpredictable world of property renovation. Her latest book, The Simple Life - How I found Home, is about the many homes she's lived in. While she was writing it, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Sarah speaks to Nuala about her perspective on language around cancer, and why she loves having a chaotic home.
Emma Hayes is the manager of Chelsea Women Football Club. In her time, they have won six Women’s Super League titles, five FA Cups and two League Cups. Emma joins Hayley Hassall to discuss football, motherhood, women's health, and leadership – which is the subject of her new audiobook, Kill the Unicorn.
The Pulitzer prize-winning production Next to Normal is currently on stage at the Donmar Warehouse in London. It features a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar and haunted by her past. Actor Caissie Levy, who plays Diana, and birder and environmentalist, Mya-Rose Craig, share their experiences with Nuala.
Did you hear our special Bank Holiday programme about lists? They pop up everywhere in life – and can be good, or bad. Nuala discusses some historically bad lists with authors Helen Lewis and Anne Sebba.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lottie Garton
Opener 00:00 Nicky Perfect 01:23 Sarah Beeny 10:41 Emma Hayes 23:10 Bipolar Mothers 35:49 Bad Lists 44:09
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, this is Nulam Agauvin, |
| 0:07.0 | and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, and welcome to the first weekend |
| 0:12.4 | Woman's Hour of September already. |
| 0:15.1 | Well, as always, we've got a pack show for you today |
| 0:17.9 | featuring the best of The Woman's Hour guests |
| 0:20.6 | and interviews from the week gone by, |
| 0:22.8 | coming up this afternoon. |
| 0:24.3 | I think the way that we talk about illness in general |
| 0:26.6 | is always you figure out what's going on |
| 0:28.3 | and then you fix it. |
| 0:29.6 | And so instead, I sort of went through this almost grieving |
| 0:32.4 | process in my early teens where I had the realization |
| 0:35.0 | that, you know, no medication, no drugs, |
| 0:37.0 | we could magically make my mum better. |
| 0:39.7 | This was just the way that her brain was wired. |
| 0:42.0 | We'll hear from my Rose Craig |
| 0:43.7 | on what it was like growing up with a mother |
| 0:45.6 | who was diagnosed with bipolar. |
| 0:48.1 | Plus, the one and only Emma Hayes, |
| 0:50.4 | manager of Chelsea Women's Football Club, |
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