Listener Week: 106 marathons in 106 days, Universal Basic Income, Widowhood

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Emma is joined by listener duo - and world record holders - Fay and Emma who ran 106 marathons in 106 consecutive days. Enduring a gruelling 2,777 miles of running, the pair hope to inspire people to be active while you can, focusing on what the body can do – not what it looks like! The killing of 9 year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool has shocked the city and the country. Listener Bobby wanted us to discuss women being killed in shootings. Jenny Kirkham, content editor for the Liverpool Echo, joined Emma Barnett. Listener Ruth Griffin got in touch to say “Please please get someone on to talk about Universal Basic Income!" Trials have been undertaken in Wales, Kenya and Finland, and Ruth asks…"why aren’t we pushing this to be introduced?" Professor Guy Standing is founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network, an NGO promoting basic income as a right, Guy is joined by Ruth Kelly, a fomer Labour MP and Minister and now Senior Fellow at the Policy Exchange Think Tank. We’ve all heard of Florence Nightingale, but have you heard of Rufaida Al-Asalmiya? Born 2,000 years before her, Rufaida was known for her work in promoting hygiene practices in invasive procedures, she was the first documented user of mobile care units in conflict zones. Listener Sofiya, who herself is a registered nurse and Muslim only just heard about Rufaida a few weeks ago. Sofiya joins Emma alongside writer Dr Shamaila Anwar. As part of listener week Coral from London wants to know why widowhood is not talked about more - is it taboo? She's joined by Sue from Norwich who has experiences and wisdom to share. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.4	Good morning and welcome to the programme and to the third day of Listen a Week.
0:14.9	What have you got in store for us today, because we are driven by your questions, your emails,
0:19.5	what you'd like.
0:20.5	Talked about, interviewed, the discussions all on the programme being driven by our listeners
0:25.3	for the whole week.
0:26.8	One listener is passionate about an economic solution to help women in particular, we'll
0:30.8	hear about the pros and cons of that.
0:33.1	Another wants to break what she sees as a taboo around widowhood.
0:37.5	And one more wants to tell the world about the life and times of a nurse from 620 AD.
0:43.0	Oh, and let's not forget the two listeners who ran 106 marathons in 106 days, like you
0:49.5	do.
0:50.5	Of course, if you want to get in touch, as usual, you can text me here at the programme
0:53.1	on 84844, text will be charged at your standard message rate on social media where at BBC
0:57.9	Woman's Hour and you can email us through the Woman's Hour website.
1:01.8	You can also now WhatsApp or send a voice note on WhatsApp, O370, 1004444, data charges
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1:12.8	Hour website, those same numbers.
1:14.8	For if you just hear something this morning, which makes you think, actually, why they
1:18.3	never talked about that?
1:19.3	Why don't we talk about this?
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