Loneliness, Lucy Calcines, Nicole Travolta, Kids at risk
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
All this week on the programme we are looking at the topic of loneliness. Women are statistically more likely to be lonely and so in today's programme we will look at ways to cope with those feelings and if it's possible to reframe them. Anita is joined by Radio 4's All in the Mind presenter Claudia Hammond and author of Alonement, Francesca Specter.
The comedian Nicole Travolta is taking her one-woman show Doing Alright to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It chronicles her life as a compulsive shopper, how she freed herself from debt, shame and the weight of a famous last name, one spray tan at a time. When she is not dressed up in a wig doing impressions, she can also be found performing comedy around LA.
The children’s charity NSPCC says that its Helpline received over one thousand contacts last year about children experiencing coercive and controlling behaviour, a form of domestic abuse. The school summer holidays can be a particularly difficult time for some of these children. If you are worried about someone, what should you do? Anita is joined by Paddi Vint, Development Manager for the NSPCC and a woman we call Margaret, who experienced coercive control in a previous relationship.
The Cuban-Spanish singer-songwriter Lucy Calcines joins Anita to sing live, ahead of her headline performance at the UK’s largest Latin music and dance festival this weekend. She shot to fame after her appearance on the Voice TV show in 2020, when she achieved a four chair turn by superstar coaches Meghan Trainor, Sir Tom Jones, Olly Murs and will.i.am. Anita will also be joined by the festival organiser, Amaranta Wright, to talk about all things Latin.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Bob Nettles
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's |
| 0:08.0 | Hour from BBC Radio 4. Good morning, don't have my dungaries on today. |
| 0:13.9 | The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak and his family are off on their first holiday in four years. |
| 0:18.3 | They're going to California, it's where we met his wife, and then they're off to Disneyland |
| 0:22.0 | with the girls. Sounds very nice. And as Press Secretary said, the PM believes that a |
| 0:25.7 | work-life balance is very important, particularly spending time with your family, especially |
| 0:29.9 | if you have young kids. But what I'd like to hear about this morning is the reality of |
| 0:35.1 | your family holiday. Are they joyful or just plain hard work? Have you even managed |
| 0:41.2 | to have one yet? Was it a 12-hour drive to Cornwall, where everyone including the dog |
| 0:46.0 | was car sick, only to be greeted with a week of rain, the great British summer holiday? |
| 0:51.1 | Do you feel like you need a holiday from your holiday? Or are they blissful? Do you |
| 0:55.6 | somehow manage to switch off completely and come back feeling refreshed? How are |
| 0:59.7 | your family holidays growing up? Did you even have them? Is your family bonding time |
| 1:04.8 | away from the stresses of everyday life? Or maybe for you, a holiday is very much a privilege |
| 1:09.6 | not a right. And a right now, the idea of going on holiday is just that, a lovely idea. |
| 1:16.1 | So family holidays, joyful or hard work, someone's already got in touch on Twitter to say, |
| 1:20.8 | on holiday, pregnant and with a toddler, I felt very much that my husband was getting |
| 1:24.8 | the relaxing pre-child holiday experience whilst I was picking up all the slack. I'd find |
| 1:29.1 | him eating breakfast with toddler sat with cereal in front of her but no milk or spoon. |
| 1:34.0 | Then when we returned to an apartment, we'd stayed in already, we were travelling for |
| 1:37.3 | about three weeks. Husband by now was joining in with chores, but had no idea what any |
| 1:42.6 | of the washing up stuff was, despite having stayed there for five days the previous week. |
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