Listener Week: Is it ever good to give up on dreams? Working class women & university, Living funerals

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For Woman's Hour's Listener Week, you, our listeners, decide what we cover on the programme.

Nuala McGovern is joined by Monica and chartered psychologist Catherine Hallissey to discuss when it might be the right decision to give up on your dream. We'd like to hear your views on the issue. Have you decided to change course or realised a goal isn’t meant to be?

Earlier this month, we heard the experiences of young people who are opting to live at home while they study at university because of the cost of living. That prompted a listener, Dr Pam Woolner from Newcastle University, to get in touch to tell us about the latest research by her colleague Dr Sam Shields. It looks into the experiences of working class women going to university and the challenges they face. Sam is senior lecturer in Education at Newcastle University and joins Nuala along with the writer Jessica Andrews who was the first in her family to go to university, leaving her home in the north-east of England to study in London.

One of our listeners got in touch to tell us that his daughter had discovered a previously unseen poem by Georgiana the Duchess of Devonshire, who you may know about from the Keira Knightley film, The Duchess. We’ll be bringing you that poem and discussing why the duchess was such an influential political figure in her day.

And Nelly has asked us to talk about living funerals. She was inspired by Kris Hallenga, the founder of the CoppaFeel breast cancer awareness charity, who has stage 4 breast cancer and who held a living funeral for herself.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Andrew Garratt

00:00 OPENER 01:43 LIVING FUNERALS 22.46 WORKING CLASS ACADEMICS 35.45 DUCHESS POEM 46.57 GIVING UP ON DREAMS 5439 CLOSE

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.
0:08.4	I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with a leading journalist, experienced
0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sport stars.
0:14.3	Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players'
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0:28.8	dedicated sports fans across the UK.
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0:40.2	Hello, this is Nulam Agauvin and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:45.7	Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour.
0:48.1	Now, one of my favourite aspects of presenting this programme is the input we get from you, our listener.
0:55.2	Every day, when you respond to the questions that we ask, it gives rise to such a huge wealth
1:00.7	of experience and also of opinion, so you can imagine just how much I'm enjoying this week.
1:06.6	It's listener week, so thank you for all the ideas you have sent and continue to send.
1:11.9	Now, here are some of your ideas that are coming up today.
1:14.9	Living funerals, so celebrating with the person before they die.
1:19.9	Also, the experiences of working-class women at university, we'll hear about the charismatic
1:26.6	George Jaina Duchess of Devonshire.
1:29.2	The daughter of a listener found a previously unknown poem that George Jaina had written.
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