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Woman's Hour

Listener Week: a basic guide to economics, quizzes, ageing without children

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sarah wrote in suggesting we provide a basic guide to economics. Economics is so central to our lives but few of us, she thinks, are economically literate enough to engage properly with the constant references in the news. Sarah is joined by Rupal Patel, Senior Economist at the Bank of England and co-author of Can’t We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions. One of our listeners – Roz Unwin – wanted to share her passion for quizzing. She took it up over lockdown, and now runs her own quizzes in North London. She joins Emma, along with Alice Walker, who was crowned this year’s Mastermind Champion. Ageing without children is the subject of our next discussion. Listener Mo Ray, Professor of Health and Social Care at the University of Lincolnshire wanted us to raise awareness of the growing numbers. She says care and ageing policy is still built on the assumption that behind every older person there is at least one adult child ready and able to provide care and support. She joins Emma along with Jenny Collieson, Trustee of the charity AWOC, Ageing without Children. To discuss the realities of the post mastectomy body, Emma speaks to listener Janine, a former nurse from Merseyside. Janine had a bilateral mastectomy as well as bilateral reconstructions, yet remains nipple-less. She emailed in saying “I have no idea where to go to get ‘completed”. Similarly frustrated by the lack of creative and attractive prosthetics, lingerie and fashion for the asymmetric body post her own mastectomy, we hear from Katie, a listener from Leicester who founded a collective called Bionic Boob, made up of artists making knitted boobs, sculptures, body armour and even biodegradable boobs with shelving. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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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.

0:12.3

The first of Woman's Hour, listen a week.

0:15.2

I do talk about how central you are to the programme and I mean it every single day.

0:19.8

But this week we've actually handed the reins to you to see what you feel isn't being

0:23.9

covered.

0:24.9

Perhaps maybe it's being covered but never in the way you want to hear.

0:27.8

Perhaps there's certain people that you'd like us to interview, you'd like me to talk

0:31.0

to and ask particular questions of, I do love it because I never know what's coming

0:35.4

up genuinely.

0:36.7

On today's programme, for instance, we have The Joy of Quizzing, Bionic Breasts, an

0:41.7

aging without children with a healthy sprinkle of economic literacy.

0:46.8

Only on Woman's Hour, during listen a week.

0:49.4

Do get in touch, I should say, if there's anything you hear throughout the programme

0:53.1

you want to contribute to as usual I should say.

0:55.6

But if you want to suggest something for tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, we are still

1:01.3

in the market for your suggestions and you've been continuing to get in touch over the

1:05.2

weekend.

1:06.2

I've been looking at those messages this morning, let us know what you would like to

1:09.7

be covered.

1:10.7

It could be based on something in your own life, it could be a campaign you're to do with,

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