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Woman's Hour

Joanna Wolfarth, Jacqui Oatley, Shaista Aziz, Dr Stacey Pope, Róisín Lanigan, Catherine Hallissey. Lara Greaves, Helen Clark

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

When art historian Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. This didn’t go according to plan. In a bid to understand her own feelings and attitudes about feeding her baby, she has just published a new book called Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding . We discuss the schock resignation of Austrian Prime Minister Jacinder Ardern with BBC Diplomatic Correspondent James Lansdale, former Prime Minister Helen Clark and the political scientist Lara Greaves from Auckland University. The premier league and the football association has been spelling out what they'll do to attract more women both as players and fans. But critics say women players are still too often thought of as an afterthought when it comes to both resources and facilities. And that fans are put off because they are badly catered for and misogyny can be rife in football stadia. We hear from football corrrespondent Jacqui Oatley and Shaista Aziz from the campaign group The Three Hijabis and the Academic Dr Stacey Pope from Durham University. Do you consider yourself to be a lucky person? ‘Lucky girl syndrome’ is a new trend taking over TikTok with over 80 million views of the hashtag. The concept involves telling yourself that you are the luckiest person in the world, that everything always works out for you - and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The journalist Róisín Lanigan from i-D magazine and psychologist Catherine Hallissey join Anita to discuss whether it’s just a new take on positive thinking, and whether there is any psychological basis for it. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Bob Nettles

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.2

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

0:10.6

Do you feel lucky?

0:12.2

Have you ever had a time in your life where you felt that luck is on your side?

0:15.8

Have you woken up and things just gone your way?

0:17.9

Maybe you're feeling lucky this morning?

0:19.5

The reason I ask is there's a new TikTok trend you might already know about.

0:24.0

It's a hashtag LuckyGirlsCindrome.

0:26.6

I have always made it a point to tell everyone.

0:29.6

I am so lucky.

0:30.9

I just always expect great things to happen to me and so they do.

0:35.6

That was TikToker Laura Gillaby, one of the women who started the trend.

0:39.8

So how do you feel about luck?

0:42.2

Are you born with it?

0:43.4

Do you earn it?

0:44.4

Does some lucky so-and-so's have more of it than others?

0:47.2

Purely by virtue of being born into privilege.

0:49.2

Tell me about when you have felt lucky and how you feel generally about lady luck.

0:54.0

You can get in touch in the usual ways.

0:55.4

You can text the programme 84844.

0:58.0

You can email me by going to our website or you can WhatsApp me or even send me a voice

1:02.5

note, 03700-100444.

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