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Woman's Hour

Nell Mescal, Professor Hazel Smith, Jean MacKenzie, Fern Brady, Claer Barratt, Stella Creasy MP, Lauren Moss

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Nell Mescal is a singer songwriter from Ireland who writes Indie Folk songs. She’s a rising star whose featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, has been named as an artist to watch by NME and is preparing for a summer of live gigs. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about what inspires her songs, being a young woman in the music industry and performs her single ‘Graduating’ live in the studio. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been photographed five times over recent months alongside his adolescent daughter. The latest photos show a beaming Kim Ju-Ae, who is aged between 9 and 10, standing with her father at a lavish military parade, where at least 11 intercontinental ballistic missiles were shown. So, why is Kim Jong Un revealing his daughter now? There is speculation that she is to be his successor, but is there any truth to that claim? Nuala talks to Professor Hazel Smith is Professorial Research Associate in Korean Studies at SOAS, University of London and BBC Correspondent Jean MacKenzie who is based in South Korea. Fern Brady is a comedian and writer who has appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats, Live at the Apollo, and the most recent series of Taskmaster. She has also co-hosted three series of the Wheel of Misfortune podcast for BBC Sounds with fellow comedian Alison Spittle. In 2021, Fern received a diagnosis for autism. In her new book, Strong Female Character, she explores how this has impacted her life, and what it means to be an autistic working-class woman. We talk about plans to regulate the buy now pay later credit industry with Stella Creasy MP and Claer Barratt from the Financial Times. And BBC LGBT & Identity Correspondent Lauren Moss reports on a new book which claims that 97.5 per cent of children seeking help at the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, had autism, depression or other problems that might have explained their unhappiness. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Gayl Gordon

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Nulam Agoveren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:04.4

It is indeed welcome to Woman's Hour.

0:07.4

Good to have you with us and we're going to have some music for you a little later in

0:11.4

the hour this Tuesday morning.

0:13.3

Now, Mascale, a rising Irish talent, will be in the Woman's Hour studio and if that's

0:17.6

her name sounds familiar, yes, she does come from a very talented family but we want to

0:21.8

talk about 19-year-old Nell.

0:23.6

She'll be playing graduating her single about the conflicting emotions leaving secondary

0:28.1

school.

0:29.1

Rolling Stone describes her music as Indy Pop that offers solidarity with outsiders.

0:34.3

Also the comedian for Embraidery will be with us.

0:36.2

Her book is called Strong Female Character and she explores the impact of autism on

0:40.9

her life and also the lack of a diagnosis from her childhood until to just two years ago.

0:47.1

She was 34.

0:48.1

It is wickedly funny.

0:49.6

The book is also sad.

0:51.2

Investigates why it can take so much longer for a girl rather than a boy to be diagnosed

0:56.0

with autism.

0:57.1

And also our autism helped her go into stand-up comedy.

1:01.2

That's all coming up.

1:02.9

There's also autism coming up in claims this morning.

1:07.0

Maybe you saw this about how the NHS's gender identity development service did not explore

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