Nurses on the Frontline; Why babies laugh; Glasgow City FC; Marisa Meltzer

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has now passed 26,000, with some 15,000 in hospital. More than 100 NHS workers have died, a third of them nurses. What are the experiences and concerns of nurses working on the front line? Jane Garvey talks to Rachel Winterflood, a critical care nurse; “Mary” who works as a nurse in ICU and Jessica Sainsbury, a student nurse who has opted to finish her training with clinical practice.

We talk to the two women who set up Glasgow City FC in 1988 at a time when sexism was a real problem in achieving equality in women's football (and still is!). Denied the access to the football they wanted to play when they were growing up Laura Montgomery and Cas Stewart decided to create the best team in Scotland and did! Glasgow City FC went on to win 13 consecutive League titles and reach the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter finals twice.

The psychologist Caspar Addyman’s new book The Laughing Baby is all about the science of why babies laugh. He tells us what sets off a peal of delightful giggles and we hear stories and recordings from listeners about the things that have made their babies laugh.

Marisa Meltzer was put on her first diet at the age of 5. Fast forward nearly four decades, Marisa comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the woman who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Marisa feels a moment of intense connection and decides to sign up for a year of Weight Watchers. In her book, This is Big Marisa ties together the biography of Jean Nidetch with her own story about body image, weight and her complicated relationship to food and dieting.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:41.0	Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the Woman's Our
0:44.1	podcast incredibly. I'm gazing up at a screen which tells me it's the 1st of May
0:48.4	2020. Hardly seems possible. Good morning and we are going to talk to three nurses in a couple of minutes here on
0:57.2	Women's hour. Also today we're talking about babies laughing because well we can and here is
1:01.9	a baby laughing.
1:03.0	I haven't officially.
1:05.0	I haven't officially got favorites but that is good isn't it?
1:14.0	More laughing babies on women's air today and we'll also talk about Gene Nydich.
1:19.0	She was the founder of Weight Watchers and there's a really interesting new book out about her it's called
1:24.4	This is Big. It's a book about Jean in her life and it's also the story of the author's own
1:29.7	relationship with her weight so we'll talk about that. This is big is the name of the book.
1:34.6	Marissa Melzer is the name of the author and she's live on Womiser from the States a little bit later.
1:39.9	But the Prime Minister said yesterday and it's all over the front pages of the papers today.
1:45.2	We're past the peak and on the downward slope.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.