Monica Lewinsky Revisited: A new generation learn about the political scandal of the 1990s
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Monica Lewinsky is a name that most people will know. But for a whole new generation of women, including younger millennials who were children at the time, the details of US President Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the 1998 impeachment proceedings it led to may be unfamiliar. Impeachment: American Crime Story on BBC Two, aims to reframe the Clinton scandal from the perspective of the women it engulfed. Jessica Creighton talks to Jessica Bennett from the New York Times and Sarah Baxter, former deputy editor of The Sunday Times. Ahead of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 starting this Sunday, Zaqiya Cajee, a pre-loved fashion advocate and Mikaela Loach climate justice activist and 5th year medical student talk about how to engage people on climate change action and their hopes for the conference. Nisha Katona, founder of the Mowgli Indian street food restaurants talks about her new book, setting up in business and her role with the government's newly formed Hospitality Council that aims to help the sector recover post pandemic. And we all know we should be doing our pelvic floor exercises: babies or no babies, young or old. But do we do them? Elaine Miller who's a pelvic physiotherapist based in Edinburgh is so passionate about getting women to do their exercises she does a stand-up gig about them; wears a giant vulva costume, and wants you to count-down to Christmas with a daily squeeze and lift. She says exercises can truly improve your pelvic floor, and in turn prevent all types of problems that you’d never think would be linked to a weak pelvic floor. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Engineer: Gayl Gordon
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| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
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| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Jessica Krieton. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello and welcome to the program. |
| 0:40.0 | Now a new BBC drama portraying former US President Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern |
| 0:45.9 | Monica Lewinsky is introducing a whole new generation of women and girls to this infamous scandal. |
| 0:50.7 | Now when the affair first came to light in 1998, Lewinsky was vilified by the media |
| 0:56.3 | and suffered with PTSD as a result. We'll be discussing whether the narrative for women |
| 1:01.2 | caught up in these situations is now better in 2021 |
| 1:04.5 | and the importance of women reclaiming their own narratives. |
| 1:08.1 | Also we'll be hearing the views of two young climate change activists ahead of what could be the pivotal COP26 conference |
| 1:15.1 | this weekend will be discussing their concerns, their hopes, and the skepticism they've |
| 1:20.0 | encountered from adults in this area. Plus how many times have you been advised to do your |
| 1:26.0 | pelvic floor muscle exercises? I know I have. One physiotherapist feels so passionate |
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