Listener Week: Van life, Surrogacy, Women and stonemasonary
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Woman's Hour's Listener Week, when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU!
On today's programme, we hear from listener Siobhan Daniels. She wrote to us on Instagram: 'I would love you to talk about van life and an alternative way of living.' Siobhan is 65 years old and after selling her home and possessions has lived in her motorhome for five years. She joins Nuala McGovern on the programme.
A message from a listener raised his concerns about the amount of time it had taken for his daughter’s case to get to trial after she was sexually assaulted. He asked Woman’s Hour to speak to the Crown Prosecution Service about why these delays occur. The CPS were unavilable for an interview and have sent us a statement. To discuss this topic we are joined live by Rape Crisis CEO, Ciara Bergman and barrister and author, Harriet Johnson.
What’s it like being a cathedral stonemason? After a listener asked to hear more about women working in heritage crafts, reporter Martha Owen went to meet Rachael Wragg, a stonemason at Lincoln Cathedral. Also known as @thegingermason on social media, Rachael tells us about working the stone, why she decided to retrain as a mason, and why she loves her job.
For some surrogacy is extremely contentious, for others it's life changing. Our listener Helen Trenchard wanted to speak about her experience of having a baby by surrogate. It is legal in the UK although it is an offence to advertise that you are seeking a surrogate or are a potential surrogate looking for "intendend parents”. Nuala explores the topic with Helen and Rena Miras-Pye who carried Helen's baby.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read |
| 0:08.2 | everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge. |
| 0:14.7 | It's part of what it means to be human. |
| 0:17.5 | Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance. |
| 0:22.1 | There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative. |
| 0:25.0 | The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan |
| 0:29.0 | with me Rory Stewart, |
| 0:31.0 | listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.6 | Hello, this is Nula McGovern, |
| 0:41.4 | and you're listening to the Women's Hour podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello and welcome to Women's Hour and to Listener Week. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you for all the ideas you have submitted to make this week's programs. |
| 0:52.0 | Today's discussions have been |
| 0:54.4 | been generated by you so maybe a woman's hour will sound a little bit |
| 0:58.4 | different this week but your ideas include packing up and deciding to live in a van. |
| 1:04.6 | One listener Chivon has done just that. |
| 1:06.5 | We're going to hear how it's working out. |
| 1:08.6 | And it also got us to thinking about what a dream retirement might look like for you and I whether that's a long way |
| 1:16.1 | off or if it's just around the corner I want to hear your thoughts. Maybe it is staying out late |
| 1:21.0 | every night with no alarm in the morning. Maybe it's taking a |
| 1:23.9 | massive road trip. What about owning your own pottery studio or |
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