Naomi Campbell, Equality at home, Susie Dent
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Naomi Campbell the model, icon, and activist, who’s been at the summit of the fashion industry for over three decades tells us how she believes the fashion and beauty industry needs to play its part in bringing about change when it comes to racial equality.
Who is doing the most when it comes to childcare and chores in heterosexual couples, and how might lock-down be changing things? We hear from Ali Lacey, a PhD researcher from Sussex University which is looking into this subject, Mary Ann Stevenson of the UK Women’s Budget Group and Francine Deutsch Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College in the US.
The Science journalist Debora Mackenzie tells us about her book: COVID-19: the pandemic that never should have happened, and how to stop the next one.
As two black British women writers - Bernadine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge - top the UK fiction and non-fiction bestseller charts for the first time, we hear from best-selling author of Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams and Sharmaine Lovegrove founder of Dialogue Books about the way the publishing industry treats black writers and readers.
We hear why self-employed women are receiving less government support during coronavirus if they’ve taken maternity leave between April 2016 and March 2019. This is because maternity pay isn’t taken into account when calculating payments under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme. The group Pregnant Then Screwed is threatening the Chancellor with indirect sex discrimination. We speak to founder Joeli Brearley and the freelance journalist, Alex Lloyd.
Susie Dent is a lexicographer, etymologist and linguist. She has appeared in Dictionary Corner on Channel 4's Countdown since 1992. She tells us how language has evolved and about her new podcast with Gyles Brandreth.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Jane Thurlow
Interviewed guest: Naomi Campbell Interviewed guest: Ali Lacey Interviewed guest: Mary Ann Stevenson Interviewed guest: Francine Deutsch Interviewed guest: Debora Mackenzie Interviewed guest: Candice Carty-Williams Interviewed guest: Sharmaine Lovegrove Interviewed guest: Joeli Brearley Interviewed guest: Alex Lloyd Interviewed guest: Susie Dent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Good afternoon. In today's programme, |
| 0:07.2 | the equal or unequal sharing of household tasks and childcare |
| 0:12.5 | doing lockdown. Who is doing the most? |
| 0:17.3 | How comparison with other authors can mean a black writer |
| 0:21.4 | can be paid less than another. |
| 0:23.7 | If you're a black writer, you don't have comps |
| 0:26.4 | if you're writing about race and Britain |
| 0:29.2 | and there's not that many people who've been given the space |
| 0:32.6 | to be able to do that. |
| 0:33.8 | And then when they're exceptional, like books like candy, |
| 0:36.9 | so Bernardini Veristo, |
| 0:39.0 | then we're not allowed to really use those as comps |
| 0:41.6 | and because they consider exceptional. |
| 0:44.3 | The science journalist and the book that feels like a must read. |
| 0:49.6 | Debra McKenzie's Covid-19, |
| 0:52.2 | the pandemic that should never have happened |
| 0:55.1 | and how to stop the next one. |
| 0:58.1 | The woman from Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent, |
| 1:00.6 | on some of her favourite words |
| 1:02.9 | and the way language changes and develops. |
| 1:06.1 | When Shakespeare was coming up with words like laughable, |
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