Olympian cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, Actor Imogen Poots, Pornography series
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dame Laura Kenny, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, talks to Emma Barnett about her sporting career, motherhood and her decision to quit cycling.
Are we staying in more since the pandemic? We talk to Kate Nicholls OBE, CEO of UK Hospitality, and Ellen Scott, Acting Digital Content Director at Stylist Magazine.
Our pornography series continues with 'Elaine', a woman in her late 60s who's worried about her husband's porn use. Followed by a discussion about the effect habitual porn use has on our brains with Dr Paula Hall, a Sexual & Relationship Psychotherapist, and Professor Valarie Voon, Neuropsychiatrist and Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge.
Actor Imogen Poots is starring in a new film about the English heiress turned IRA bomber and art thief Rose Dugdale called Baltimore. Imogen tells Emma about her approach to the role. After today’s programme aired, the news broke that Rose Dugdale has died aged 83.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Andy Garner
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan |
| 0:05.2 | I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy |
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| 0:18.0 | making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things. |
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| 0:29.6 | from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you |
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:50.0 | I hope you had a lovely weekend and speaking of which did you go out I'm asking because that's one of the things we're going to talk about on today's program |
| 0:58.0 | new figures suggest that the number of visits to tourist attractions in the UK remain below pre-pandemic levels. |
| 1:04.8 | That's according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, which believes |
| 1:09.2 | many people have become used to not going out. Is that you or is that someone that you're |
| 1:15.0 | close to? I do want to while having this conversation today and getting your |
| 1:18.7 | experiences recognize those trying to live with long COVID which affects nearly twice as many women as men, |
| 1:24.4 | and those still shielding. The approximate 1.2 million people out there still classed |
| 1:29.8 | as immunocompromised because of their conditions and their medicines make the COVID vaccine ineffective. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm also aware of the cost of living crisis and how those two things coming out of lockdown and |
| 1:41.1 | that can come together and lead to fewer outings, fewer days. out of |
| 1:44.1 | things, and that can come together and lead to fewer outings, fewer day trips, fewer |
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