Lissie Harper’s campaign, body positivity in the age of Covid, Toddler tantrums and the other Tchaikovsky.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

PC Andrew Harper’s widow Lissie says she has cabinet support for a new law – under which anyone who kills an emergency services worker would be jailed for life. PC Andrew Harper was killed last summer in the line of duty. The three teenagers who were responsible for his death were jailed for manslaughter. She joins Jane to talk about why she’s campaigning for a new law – under which anyone who kills an emergency services worker would be jailed for life. Blogger Stephanie Yeboah has been a part of the fat acceptance and body positive movement for years. Her first book – ‘Fattily Ever After’ – is a self-help guide and love letter to black, plus size women everywhere. As new figures emerge about the higher risk Covid 19 has on obese people, She tells Jane about the book and its message Afraid of your toddler? We hear from a new TV supernanny who thinks parents have lost their grip on their children’s behaviour. Do you struggle to say no to you toddler for fear of an embarrassing temper tantrum? Did lockdown affect how you discipline your kids? Laura Amies is the nanny on the Channel 5 show Toddlers Behaving (Very) Badly and Laverne Antrobus, is a child psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic Plus the real life story of visionary lesbian activist Chris Tchaikovsky from her time as leader of criminal gang The Happy Firm, through stints behind bars, to her founding of Women In Prison

Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Henrietta Harrison.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds.
0:29.0	Hi this is Jane Garvey and welcome to the Women's Our
0:32.2	podcast it's Tuesday the 8th of September 2020.
0:36.0	Good morning. Welcome to the program. Today, Stephanie Yerboa will talk about her new book
0:41.2	Fatally Ever After. It's about body positivity and Stephanie argues very
0:46.7	powerfully that body positivity in the past tends to be associated only with
0:51.3	white women so Stephanie on the program this morning. How has your
0:54.8	parenting been in lockdown? Honestly, if you have a toddler, what's their
0:59.4	behavior been like? Have you had to give in? Have things got worse and are you really missing playgroups which I know largely are closed at the moment have had to be shut down.
1:09.4	So let us know how that's been going for you at BBC Women's Hour on Twitter. You can email
1:14.1	the program via our website and we'll also talk about the life and times of a woman, a
1:19.4	very significant woman in women's prison reform, Chris Tchaikovsky. There was a play about her on a
1:25.8	radio for a week or so ago and we'll just explore a little bit more about her
1:30.1	life. The play, if you want to hear it, was called The Other Chikovsky and you can find it, of course, on BBC Sounds.
1:37.0	Now, PC Andrew Harper was killed last summer after he and a colleague responded to reports of a stolen quad bike.
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