Lockdown Hair, 'Red Wall' Mums, Greek Goddesses

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As the government announces plans for summer school and tutoring to help children catch up on their learning we hear from parents who think it’s more important to just let them go out to play with their friends. Recent polling suggests that mums in the “Red Wall” seats of the Midlands and North of England – areas which traditionally voted Labour but have switched allegiance to back the Conservatives – are against cutting short summer holidays after such a difficult year. We hear from the mums and from Deborah Mattinson from the political consultancy Britain Thinks and from Justine Roberts at Mumsnet.

Throughout the course of the history of Greek mythology there have been many Greek goddesses. These goddesses tend to have exaggerated personalities and are often plagued with personal flaws and negative emotions , but do we know everything we need to know about these mythological women and what if anything can we learn from them today? Writer and classicist Natalie Haynes along with historian Bettany Hughes are talking about Greek Goddesses as part of this year’s WOW - Women of the World Festival running online from today until the 21st of March.

Just last week Cara Delevigne posted a photo of her new darker brown hair on Instagram saying 'Blondes have more fun but brunettes ....' So are you like Cara embracing your darker locks? Is the nondescript colour often described as 'mouse' making a comeback bought on by lockdown three? To discuss the latest hair trends is the writer and broadcaster Sali Hughes.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:41.0	Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. look, if I can call it that. We have a lot in today's program, but a key question surely of our
0:54.9	times and I ask as someone nursing the deepest and darkest routes going, with no hint of irony of
0:59.7	course bearing the surname Barnet, how much of your identity is bound up in your hair?
1:05.7	With 42 long days to go until hairdressers reopen in England, have you embraced your lockdown
1:12.0	locks?
1:12.8	Found a new you perhaps?
1:14.8	Or are you utterly in despair?
1:17.6	Tell us, send us some photos, maybe some help.
1:20.9	I for one cannot wait until the hairdress is reopen. Perhaps you've got hairdress's envy, or
1:26.8	hair cheater's envy, I should say. Do you know people who have cheated and had their hair done
1:30.8	anyways? Or perhaps you've found that your other half or someone in the home has got very good
1:35.1	with styling your hair and making it look somewhere to how it used to. Our identity is bound up in lots of different things
1:41.4	but today we're going to talk a bit more
1:43.3	about what's going on on top of our heads. You can text Women's Hour on 84844
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