Listener Week - Nits, Accents, Becoming a mother unexpectedly, Paddle sports, Losing your belongings, Choirs
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Louise Somerville thinks we need to talk more about nits. She feels that increasingly schools are inconsistent in how much they help parents deal with nits and that clear advice is lacking. We ask how best to deal with nits and head lice, and the stigma attached, and why it matters. With entomologist Richard Jones and Joanna Ibarra from Community Hygiene Concern.
Daisy Leigh was 23 when she felt an unfamiliar kicking sensation and was shocked to discover she was 30 weeks pregnant. She had just two months to prepare, mentally and practically, for becoming a mother. Nine months on, she says her daughter is the best thing that's ever happened to her.
Women and Paddling: kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding, rafting; what are the attractions, what is involved, and how can paddle sports help physical and mental health? Cadi Lambert runs the #ShePaddles programme for British Canoeing, and Emma Kitchen has started training to be a coach to help people improve their paddle skills.
Are women taken more seriously in the work place if they have an RP accent? Jane hears from listeners Karen Jenkins, Bethan John and Dr. Melanie Reynolds, and Professor Deviyani Sharma, Professor of Socio-linguistics at Queen Mary University of London.
How do you cope when you lose all your belongings? Eve, Pat Plumbridge and Sue Hepworth discuss.
How much do you miss singing in a choir? Carolyn Acton, Sandra Colston, MD Funky Choir MD and Liesbeth Tip, Clinical psychologist at the School of Health and Social Science at University of Edinburgh, discuss.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:41.0 | Good afternoon. This was listener week when every... podcasts. accent still has an impact on how seriously a woman is viewed in the workplace. |
| 0:56.1 | Does she have to speak with received pronunciation? |
| 1:00.5 | Eve lost all her belongings when she was a student. |
| 1:04.0 | What did she miss most and how did she cope? |
| 1:08.0 | And Daisy, who unexpectedly found she was pregnant, at 30 weeks. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm used to my tummy growing and you know getting a bit podgy so I had no problem that I'd put on some weight at the bottom. |
| 1:20.0 | It was not a baby bump at all. |
| 1:22.0 | But this doctor said oh gosh you haven't noticed this bump. |
| 1:24.4 | And then she did an ultrasound. |
| 1:26.3 | She actually went silent. |
| 1:28.0 | When she went silent, I knew she was about to say something quite life changing. |
| 1:32.1 | Very life changing, I would say. |
| 1:34.8 | Fiona recommends taking up a paddle sport, a canoe, a kayak or maybe a board. |
| 1:41.3 | Why is it good for you? And the women who are missing singing in a choir |
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