Lucy Manning, Women farmers, Zainab Johnson, Robyn Malcolm

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In Lucy Manning’s words, it started with a phone call... A call from a withheld number late at night in October 2022 where the unknown male caller appeared to be masturbating as he made lewd comments about her. And so began what she describes as a two-year ordeal to get police to arrest and charge the man responsible for making those calls. Lucy joins Nuala McGovern in the Woman’s Hour studio.

As thousands of farmers gather to protest planned changes in inheritance tax rules for agricultural properties, Nuala asks BBC Farming Today presenter Anna Hill how this is affecting women farmers, who according to the National Farmers' Union make up a majority of the farming workforce in England and Wales.

Zainab Johnson, one of America’s freshest voices in stand-up comedy, is making her UK debut this week at London’s Soho Theatre. She joins Nuala to discuss mining her massive family for material, being a gun owner and her thoughts on the recent US election.

New Zealand actor Robyn Malcolm joins Nuala to talk about her morally complex and challenging new drama, After the Party. Robyn co-created the drama and plays the lead character, a woman who has accused her husband of sexually assaulting a teenage boy. She tells Nuala about representing real middle-aged women on screen.

24-year-old product design and technology graduate Olivia Humphreys is a Global Medical Winner of the James Dyson Award 2024. Her invention, Athena, is a portable hair-loss prevention device for chemotherapy patients. She explains how the product works and how her mum inspired it.

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.5	I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.2	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of podcasts on all sorts of subjects,
0:16.0	relationships, identity, comedy, even one that mixes poetry, music and inner city life.
0:22.4	So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature,
0:28.3	and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience, and maybe that's you.
0:33.6	So if you like this podcast, check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:39.5	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:44.0	Hello, this is Newell McGovern and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.
0:49.1	Hello and welcome to the programme.
0:51.3	Well, farmers, as you may have been hearing there, are getting ready to rally in central London
0:55.1	to protest against proposed changes to the agricultural inheritance tax.
1:00.0	We'll go to Westminster to hear why some of the farming workforce,
1:03.3	which you may be interested to hear as majority female,
1:06.1	don't want the changes and why the government says they have to happen.
1:10.0	Also, an anti-heroine for
1:11.5	our times. That's what actor Robin Malcolm's latest character has been called. It's in the
1:17.0	drama series after the party. Now, one reviewer has said that this show is the best TV
1:22.8	New Zealand has ever made. Robin, coming up this hour. We'll also hear about one BBC correspondence,
1:29.2	two-year fight to get justice following obscene phone calls. And we'll hear from Olivia Humphreys.
1:35.4	She has invented a newer, cheaper, portable, scalp-cooling device for chemotherapy patients,
1:42.0	which hopes to help prevent hair loss.
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