Keely Hodgkinson's gold, Meera Sodha, IQ levels
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Keely Hodgkinson has won gold in the women's 800 metres at the Paris Olympics. It's only Team GB's 10th ever female gold medal in athletics. Nuala McGovern is joined by five-time Olympic athlete Jo Pavey to reflect on Keely's success and what it means for the career of the 22-year-old.
The Paris 2024 Olympics was set to be the first where men could compete alongside women in the synchronised swimming, now known as artistic swimming. Bill May has been campaigning for this change for the last 30 years. He speaks to Nuala about why he thinks men should be included in the sport.
Food writer Meera Sodha’s new cookbook, Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day, pays homage to the restorative power of cooking for the ones you love. Meera says it was written in the midst of ‘a difficult personal time and much reflection.’ She joins Nuala to talk about mental health and rediscovering her love for food.
Do you have any idea what your IQ is? New analysis from The Economist shows that brain development is being hindered across the world due to a lack of nutrition, war and even sexism - issues mainly affecting women and children. Are they getting left behind? Nuala is joined by the Deputy Editor of The Economist, Robert Guest, and Dr Meera Shekar, Global Lead for Nutrition at The World Bank’s Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice.
Emma O’Halloran’s opera, Mary Motorhead, tells the story of a woman who is behind bars for murder. Emma speaks to Nuala about showing a different side to the stereotypical female opera lead.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lottie Garton
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| 0:55.0 | Well, as we bask in the glow of Keeley Hodgkin's gold medal in her 800 meters victory for |
| 1:00.9 | a team GB in Paris, we are going to speak to five-time |
| 1:05.2 | Olympian Joe Pavey about that race it was a storming victory but Olympic lovers |
| 1:10.9 | we also want to indulge you. |
| 1:13.2 | What has been your favorite Olympic moment from any Olympics that got under your skin? |
| 1:18.1 | I was thinking back. I think the first one that kind of pierced through for me was Mary Lou Retton in 1984. |
| 1:25.0 | She became the first American woman to win a gold medal for individual all-round gymnastics |
| 1:30.0 | and it had all of us prancing around our back gardens trying to do something similar |
| 1:34.8 | with not such a plumb listen you can text the program the number is 8 for 844 on |
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