Ladies' Loos, Family Secrets, Dame Stephanie Shirley

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What goes on in the ladies? Office gossip, getting locked-in, the most embarrassing moments, confessing to a stranger, a place for bonding, bullying, and bunking-off? We hear your stories about women’s toilets, with Comedian Shazia Mirza and Historian Claudia Elphick.

Dame Stephanie Shirley – always known as Steve – joins Jane to talk about her career-spanning book of speeches So to Speak. Now 87, she’s a successful IT entrepreneur who revolutionised the workplace for women and is now a major philanthropist. She's in demand for public speaking and often starts by giving her own story of arriving here on the Kindertransport in 1939, one of 10,000 Jewish children fleeing Nazi Germany. She says she has done more since that day than she would ever have believed possible.

We continue our series on family secrets. Today we hear about a woman in her late forties who has a secret which has affected her life since she was a teenager.

And we get the latest about vaccines from GP Sarah Jarvis.

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0:41.0	Hi, this is Jane Garvey and a warm welcome and I don't know whether the BBC just
0:44.8	hasn't paid the bill but it's freezing at Broadcasting House today.
0:47.7	Really is I've got my blooming scarf on it's a disgrace.
0:51.5	Anyway it's December so I suppose we should we should expect to be a
0:54.3	cult although we're always slightly taken by surprise anyway it's Monday the 7th of
0:58.5	December 2020 and this is Woman's Hour, and we will explore the wonderful and sometimes quite strange world of women's toilets a little bit later in the program.
1:09.0	We want your involvement as well. 8484 is our text number on social media we are at BBC
1:15.9	women's hour this is your program please do feel free to get involved with any
1:20.4	subject we have up for discussion this morning. We're also going to be
1:24.8	talking about vaccines, particularly about the COVID vaccine in relation to women,
1:29.1	pregnant women. You might well have heard that pregnant women are not going to get the
1:34.0	COVID vaccine. If you're concerned about that perhaps if you have a question
1:37.7	84844 Sarah Jarvis GP to the stars will be on Women's Out this morning, talking to her, I mean the
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