Miriam Margolyes; Elaine Feeney; Cook the Perfect with Ravinder Bhogal.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Described as a ‘tender portrayal of experiencing dementia in lockdown’ Watching Rosie is an online play starring Miriam Margolyes. Portraying grandmother Alice, and Louise Coulthard, her granddaughter Rosie, Miriam joins Jenni to discuss the bond between the two as they face change and confusion.
Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with terrifying secret. No one knows it; not her fellow patients in hospital, and certainly not her family. She’s only confided in a shiny magpie and Google! Poet Elaine Feeney talks to Jenni about her debut novel As You Were – all about the secrets we hold, the burdens we carry and why we all need people to lean on.
The Care Quality Commission have described the maternity care at Basildon University Hospital as ‘inadequate’, after a whistleblower shared concerns for patient safety. Jenni is joined by BBC Look East’s Suzie Fowler-Watt, who has been following the story, and Lauren, who has had maternity care at the hospital and is part of a support group for women who’ve lost babies at the hospital.
Chef and restaurateur Ravinder Bhogal's new book Jikoni celebrates immigrant food and its ability to adapt. Her recipes span flavours and culinary traditions from India, Kenya, Asia and Britain. She tells the stories of women who are marginalised and whose stories have been erased - stories she refers to as feminist gospels. She talks to Jenni about how to Cook the Perfect Coffee Rasgullas with Mascarpone Ice Cream and Espresso Caramel.
Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel
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| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:42.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Up. podcasts. In today's programme, maternity care at Basildan University Hospital is described as |
| 0:56.6 | inadequate by the Care Quality Commission. |
| 0:59.6 | How did the failures come to light? |
| 1:02.4 | A first novel by the Irish poet Elaine Feeney, as you were, |
| 1:06.5 | brings together a group of very different women in a hospital ward where there is no privacy, |
| 1:12.1 | but a community of sorts and cook the perfect with the chef and |
| 1:16.7 | restaurateur Ravinde bugal her book is jiconi proudly inauthentic recipes from an immigrant kitchen. |
| 1:26.4 | Now there are a few moves to try and bring some live theatre back |
| 1:31.0 | particularly where the performance can take place in the open air, but most of the work |
| 1:35.7 | that's being done is being created within strict social distancing rules using screens |
| 1:41.8 | and to be shown on television or online to an audience at home. |
| 1:46.0 | A short play called Watching Rosie is available online until the 30th of September |
| 1:52.0 | and has been produced by the Original Theatre online. |
| 1:56.1 | It's about a grandmother, Alice, who has dementia, communicating with her adult granddaughter, Rosie, by Skype. |
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