Juliet Uzor Sewing Bee winner, Shame, Teenage brains
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Juliet Uzor tells us about winning this year’s Great British Sewing Bee.
What is the best way to care for a parent with dementia? We hear from Sarah Mitchell whose mother Wendy was diagnosed with early onset dementia at the age of 58. Sarah tells us how they've adapted their lives and relationship.
A new Amnesty International report has found what it calls 'a shocking level' of unreported and acquitted rapes across the Nordic countries. Why? Jacqui Hunt the Director of Equality Now’s European office and Helle Jacobsen a senior Advisor and Researcher at Amnesty Denmark, discuss.
What makes the adolescent brain different and why is it that an easy child can become a challenging teenager? Sarah-Jayne Blackmore a Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London helps us understand.
Why is ‘Shame’ the emotion of now? Hetta Howes a lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at City University London, and Tiffany Watt-Smith a cultural historian discuss.
Laura Lattimore and Rashida Hardy tell us about having severe hair loss and why wearing a wig is important to them.
The poet Helen Mort on her first novel Black Car Burning about rock climbing, trust and polyamory.
Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane Thurlow
Interviewed guest: Juliet Uzor Interviewed guest: Sarah Mitchell Interviewed guest: Jacqui Hunt Interviewed guest: Helle Jacobsen Interviewed guest: Sarah-Jayne Blackmore Interviewed guest: Hetta Howes Interviewed guest: Tiffany Watt-Smith Interviewed guest: Laura Lattimore Interviewed guest: Rashida Hardy Interviewed guest: Helen Mort
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| 0:41.0 | Good afternoon. Welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour, this week, Caring for A Parent with Dementia, |
| 0:47.7 | the winner of the Great British Sewing Bee and Wiggs. |
| 0:51.2 | We know that hair is pretty political for women, but where do wigs fit in? |
| 0:55.6 | Going for my first ever wig appointment and I remember sitting down in the chair and they were brilliant and lovely |
| 1:01.1 | and they said, would law it like a fringe? And I said, Laura like a fringe and I said what's a |
| 1:04.8 | fringe because I had never heard of one and I'd never had hair and they said it'll be |
| 1:09.6 | easy for you to maintain if you have a fringe. Also this afternoon, the mysteries of the teenage brain, |
| 1:15.7 | the poet Helen Mort tells us about her first novel, Black Car Burning, |
| 1:20.3 | and we ask, is the emotion of now shame? |
| 1:24.0 | Shame tends to be associated with the visual, with kind of wanting to hide. |
| 1:29.0 | So that's one thing that's important about it. |
| 1:31.0 | Another thing is that shame tends to be about something that is |
| 1:34.8 | you, you know something that you are rather than something that you've done so you |
| 1:39.6 | tend to be embarrassed about actions but you tend to feel shame about who you are sort of deep within yourself. |
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