Late Night Woman's Hour: Work and Rest

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Lauren and guests reflect on how we can find the right balance between work and rest.

Often presented as opposites, our attitudes to work and rest are changing under the influence of a range of technological and social forces. Many people work from home, but how many of us also home from work? And how do we maintain the boundaries between the two when it's so easy to check your work email at midnight?

Lauren's guests this month are:

Emma Gannon: writer, blogger, and founder of the podcast Control Alt Delete. Emma wrote a book of the same name in 2016, and is currently working on a new book, The Multi-Hyphen Method, in which she's going to be looking at how we can 'design our own careers and work less.'

Dr Zeena Feldman: lecturer in digital culture at King's College London. Zeena is interested in how digital media blur the boundaries between our work and home lives. Earlier this year she launched the Quitting Social Media project, examining peoples' reasons for disconnecting.

Rosie Fletcher: writer, stand-up comedian and co-founder of the Rosie & Jessica's Day of Fun podcast. Rosie has M.E., which has affected her ability to work and meant a radical reassessment of how she manages her energy. She writes about her experiences for the New Statesman and Huffington Post.

Ash Sarkar: lecturer and senior editor at Novara Media, Ash's work focuses on the enduring legacies of colonialism in modern Europe, the intersections between race, class and gender, as well as the political meaning of Beyoncé.

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour. This month we're talking about work and rest.
0:40.0	Often presented as opposites, we want to explore how our attitudes to both are changing
0:44.0	and how we can strike a better balance between the two in the interests of transparency it seems
0:48.4	only right to reveal that I started work 12 hours ago last date a meal sitting down three days ago and producer Laura
0:54.0	has been tackling a weapons grade outbreak of tonsilitis among her family all while
0:58.7	trying to get this little program to air. So we definitely don't have the answers. We do however have plenty of questions
1:04.7	for tonight's excellent panel. With me in the late night lounge are Emma Gannon,
1:08.9	she's a writer, blogger and founder of the podcast Control Alt Delete.
1:12.8	Emma wrote a book of the same name in 2016 and is currently working on a new book,
1:17.0	The Multifon Method in which he's going to be looking at how we can design our own careers
1:22.2	and work less, Emma. This sounds amazing.
1:25.0	Yes, I mean that's very click-baity, isn't it?
1:28.0	Yeah, it's create more, work less.
1:30.0	Yeah, and hyphens also, I'm thinking Zoolander slashy. I want that. Yeah, don't worry, it's I'm not walking around
1:36.8	LA with a backpack doing a model blogger DJ, I promise. It's beyond that.
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