Laura Wright, Extended Maternity Leave, Baroness Doreen Lawrence
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The soprano Laura Wright tells us about her new single released with The Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London to mark Mental Health Awareness week.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence discusses why the Labour Party are conducting its own enquiry into why people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities are more than four times more likely to die as a result of Covid-19 than their white counterparts.
Two twenty-somethingsJackie Adedeji and Erin Bradshaw tell us how life has changed for them since the pandemic began.
The author Glennon Doyle tells us about her book untamed which explains why we should all listen to and trust the voice deep inside us.
Should maternity leave be extended because of the lockdown? The parents of a 6 month old have had more than 200 thousand signatures to a petition asking the government to extend it by three months. We hear from James one of the parents who started the petition and from Cheryl Adams the Executive director of the Institute of Health Visiting on the difficulties faced by new parents at this time.
Professor Marion Turner an expert on medieval England tells us why The Plague led to increased wages, greater employment, more migration to towns and, ultimately, to greater independence for women.
What makes someone want to go to see the same musical at the theatre time and time again? We hear from documentary maker Mark Dooley about his film, Repeat Attenders – which follows some of musical theatre’s superfans – including Gudrun Mangel a huge fan of Starlight Express.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:41.0 | Good afternoon. In today's program, we look back to the great plague of the 14th century, the black death, in which |
| 0:49.4 | some 70 million died. Why when it ended did women achieve greater independence than they'd had before? |
| 0:58.3 | The impact of the current pandemic, how are young people in their 20s affected by lockdown? |
| 1:04.0 | I went straight into child mode and when I came home I'd be like |
| 1:07.0 | Mom I'm hungry and she's like you're a grown woman go and get your food. |
| 1:10.0 | There's moments where I'm like really happy to be home |
| 1:12.0 | and then other times when I forget how annoying my mom and dad can be my dad just opening my door my dad pings the door open and I'm like this is why I don't live here anymore |
| 1:21.8 | A plea for maternity leave to be extended by three months. What benefits |
| 1:27.1 | would it bring to new parents? In her book Untamed, the author Glennendoyle explains how men and women are conditioned into different types of behavior. |
| 1:38.0 | Little boys are trained in every moment of uncertainty to look inside themselves for their own desire, little girls |
| 1:45.6 | are trained inside of moments of uncertainty to look outside themselves for permission, |
| 1:51.2 | for approval, and for consensus. |
| 1:53.0 | And that is why we live hungry. |
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