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Woman's Hour

Late Night Woman's Hour: Home

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Laverne and guests discuss home. What does home mean to you? Is domesticity a joy or a drudgery? And why has the Scandinavian art of Hygge become the word of the winter? Is it genius marketing or emotional need? Joining Lauren are: Trine Hahnemann, Chef and author of 'Scandinavian Comfort Food - Embracing the Arts of Hygge'. Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author. Dr Rachel Hurdley, Research Fellow in the School of Social Science at Cardiff University Helen Zaltzman, podcaster and crafter. This programme is available in two versions. The long version is podcast only and is available by clicking the MP3 button on the Late Night Woman's Hour programme page or subscribing to the Woman's Hour daily podcast. The shorter broadcast version will be available on Iplayer shortly after transmission on Friday 28th October. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Eleanor Garland Guest: Susie Orbach Guest: Rachel Hurdley Guest: Trine Hahnemann Guest: Helen Zaltzman.

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0:00.0

This month on late night women's hour, winter is coming. Without wishing to get

0:04.5

two game of thrones about it, the nights are drawing in and so more of us. Our

0:08.4

subject this month is home. Are you creating a nest to hibernate for the winter?

0:12.8

What does home mean to you? And why has the Scandinavian art of hugger become

0:17.4

the word of the season? Genius marketing or emotional need? Joining me tonight,

0:22.1

podcaster and crafter Helen Zoltzman, hello Helen. Hello. Rachel Hurdley,

0:27.1

research fellow in the School of Social Science at Cardiff University.

0:30.9

Welcome. Hello. Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author. Hello to you. Hello.

0:36.4

And Trina Harnamen, chef and author. Welcome Trina. Thank you. Thank you very

0:42.3

much for joining me all. So hugger is the latest, confusingly spelled domestic

0:46.8

trend to hit the UK, imported from Scandinavia. You've probably seen it

0:50.5

written down and it's spelled H-Y-G-G-E. Should you wish to read about it

0:55.2

further? You currently have over 100 volumes to choose from on one popular

0:59.5

book website. There's hookah home decor, hookah food, hookah parenting, even a

1:04.6

hookah coloring book, which I presume you have to do by a fire wearing a pair

1:08.1

of cozy socks. Trina, tell me about this word hookah. We keep being told that

1:13.9

it's untranslatable. Can you have a go for us as a dean? The hookah? I think it's

1:20.3

true in a way because when you have a word that is so absorbed in your culture

1:24.7

and your daily life, it's kind of odd to have to translate it all of a sudden

1:29.4

to the whole world. So I think that's where the deans are right now. We're a

1:32.3

bit in shock. What is this about? What's going on? Everybody's asking. Yes. And it's

1:38.9

a word we use all the time every day for a lot of situations. It is a bit more

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