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🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.8 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:13.4 | As the country's most powerful woman, the new Prime Minister Liz Truss, only in post for |
0:17.7 | a month, prepares and about an hour's time to take to the stage at the Conservative Party |
0:22.0 | Conference to give what some are calling the speech of her career to try and calm the |
0:26.6 | party faithful after one of the most chaotic and turbulent starts to a premiership and |
0:31.6 | to appeal to you, the British public. |
0:33.9 | I have a question for you. |
0:35.8 | If you were one of her speech writers, what story would you be thinking of that may end |
0:41.1 | dear her to you and if you were to relate to your own life, if you were having to think |
0:45.7 | about what could be a story from your childhood, from something about when you were growing |
0:49.9 | up that could end dear you to an entire nation? |
0:53.1 | What would you pick? |
0:54.2 | To Keir Starmer in his equivalent speech at the Labour Party Conference last week, talked |
0:57.8 | of growing up in a Pebble-Dash semi, his father being a toolmaker, his mother a nurse, |
1:02.5 | and the first family car being a Ford Cortina in the 1970s, where he talked about money |
1:07.2 | may have been thin on the ground, but hope wasn't for the working classes. |
1:11.9 | If you were trying to come up with an endearing story about your life, what would it be and |
1:17.2 | why and why would you choose to tell that to the whole country when you're trying to |
1:21.6 | establish yourself as the Prime Minister? |
1:23.9 | I'd love to hear these stories from you this morning. |
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