LISTENER WEEK: Writing about your job. The evolution of the buggy. Community quilting.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
LISTENER WEEK: Josie Channer and Teresa Devereux are both listeners who felt that they had to write novels about what they’d experienced through their work. Josie’s written Diary of a Prison Officer and Teresa’s based her novel Broken Lives on what she saw and heard as a social worker. They tell Jane about how they published their work and what they hope readers will get out of their books.
Sarah Fraser is an associate professor at Princess Nourah Bint University in Riyadh, the largest female-only university in the world. She got in touch because she wanted to talk about the supportive and collaborative there,. She believes that despite most people believing the opposite, a country like Saudi Arabia does not oppress women. Rothna Begum, senior women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch with focus on the Middle East adds her perspective.
Plus the evolution of the pushchair and the joys of community quilting.
Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.0 | BBC Sounds Music music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and this is the Women's Out Podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | It is Thursday, the 27th of August, 2020. |
| 0:41.0 | Good morning and welcome to the fourth day of our annual listener week where we discuss everything |
| 0:47.6 | you want us to talk about. |
| 0:49.9 | Everything we're discussing on the program this week has come from an email from a listener. |
| 0:53.7 | So today we're discussing buggies. Are they too big? Are they a status symbol? |
| 0:58.9 | They take up too much space, particularly on public transport. And what about the needs of children with disabilities and |
| 1:05.5 | indeed parents with disabilities? |
| 1:07.7 | So a focus on buggies today, apparently you can pay, I mean you probably shouldn't, you can pay 40 grand for a buggy. |
| 1:17.0 | Also today, have we all got it wrong here about women in Saudi Arabia? Not necessarily what you might expect to hear |
| 1:25.1 | which is another good reason to do it I guess this week and it wouldn't be |
| 1:28.4 | listener week without a conversation about quilting so we'll have one of those |
| 1:31.8 | towards the end of the program today. |
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