Jackie Kay, Equal pay, Fussy eating, Period sex
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In a week of extraordinary politics, how have female MPs and advisors fared? We discuss the “macho” culture and language of parliament with Katy Balls, deputy political editor at The Spectator and Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic.
National Poet for Scotland, Jackie Kay, on a new production of her 1980's play Chiaruscuro.
Sisters Maya and Gemma Tutton tell us about their campaign OurStreetsNow. They want to implemented a law like France has done to make verbal sexual harassment illegal and punishable by an on-the-spot fine.
What is the impact of high-profile Equal Pay cases? Sam Smethers from the Fawcett Society, Charles Cotton from the CIPD and Paula Lee from Leigh Day Solicitors discuss.
When does fussy eating become a danger to health? We get advice from Dr Victoria Aldridge, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at De Montford University, Dr Lucy Serpell, Clinical Lead for Eating Disorders at North East London NHS Foundation Trust and associate professor of Psychology of Eating Disorders at UCL and Clare Thornton-Wood, dietician and spokesperson of the British Dietetic Association.
Research tells us women are responsible for the majority of consumer decisions and most of the final decisions on which clothing, food and family holidays to buy. So how much power and responsibility do women consumers have for sustainability? We ask Lauren Bravo, author of How to Break Up with Fast Fashion, Kate Cawley, director of Veris Strategies and Dr Lucie Middlemiss, Associate Professor in Sustainability at Leeds University.
Why is having sex while you've got your period such a taboo subject? We talk to journalist Emma Barnett who's written Period, It's About Bloody Time and campaigner Nimko Ali, author of What We’re Not Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway).
Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Sophie Powling Edited by Jane Thurlow
Interviewed guest: Helen Lewis Interviewed guest: Katy Balls Interviewed guest: Jackie Kay Interviewed guest: Maya and Gemma Tutton Interviewed guest: Sam Smethers Interviewed guest: Charles Cotton Interviewed guest: Paula Lee Interviewed guest: Victoria Aldridge Interviewed guest: Lucy Serpell Interviewed guest: Clare Thornton-Wood Interviewed guest: Laura Bravo Interviewed guest: Kate Cawley Interviewed guest: Lucie Middlemiss Interviewed guest: Emma Barnett Interviewed guest: Nimko Ali
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:08.2 | This week, some of our highlights include the impact that high-profile equal paycases |
| 0:13.8 | like that of Carrie Grace's have had on women coming forward on the issue. |
| 0:19.0 | You can hear two from Scotland's National Poet, Jackie K. She'll talk about growing up |
| 0:23.9 | as a black lesbian in the 1970s. |
| 0:26.2 | When I was growing up, I was 16 in the art class, and I remember this school, |
| 0:29.9 | Billy Gwynne. |
| 0:30.9 | Miss, Miss Jackie's a lazy. |
| 0:32.3 | And the art teacher turning down to me and saying, |
| 0:34.1 | well, are you Jacqueline? Are you a lesbian? |
| 0:36.8 | I said, I don't know, I really don't know. |
| 0:39.0 | More from Jackie K. later, why is sex during your period a taboo subject, |
| 0:44.2 | his Emma Barnett, on the length some women will go to avoid talking about him? |
| 0:49.1 | Instead of telling the police officer why she's got blood-stained sheets, |
| 0:53.2 | he pulls them out, looks at her, and she's thinking, |
| 0:55.9 | I'm going to go to jail for a homicide here. |
| 0:58.1 | And then she eventually says, I had sex on my period. |
| 1:02.2 | More from Emma Barnett and the taboo of period sex on weekend women's art this afternoon. |
| 1:07.9 | But we're going to start with politics. |
| 1:10.1 | It used to be really, honestly, when you think about it, |
| 1:12.8 | Britain used to be quite a quiet place. |
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