Olympics -girls and urban sports; Disability & dating; Bobbi Brown; Emma-Jean Thackray; Women talking about men; Lucy St Louis
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Will the young women smashing it at the Olympics in the new urban sports of BMX freestyling, Skateboarding and Sport Climbing inspire a new generation of girls to follow in their footsteps? Skateboarder Hannah Shrewsbury and BMX freestyler Kayley Ashworth discuss.
Women trash-talking men has gone too far: that's what the journalist James Innes Smith believes. He shares his viewpoint with Fiona Sturges, from the Financial Times and the Guardian, who doesn't agree.
Trumpeter, band leader, singer, multi instrumentalist jazz queen. Emma-Jean Thackray on her debut album Yellow, which is number one on the Jazz & Blues Chart.
The reality dating show Love Island features for the first time a contestant with a disability Joy Addo, who has a podcast where she talks about her life as a visually impaired, single mum, and Kelly Gordon, the Disability and Inclusion Lead at sex toy company Hot Octopuss, discuss the realities of dating with a disability.
The shift to mask wearing and homeworking saw many of us ditch our make-up during the pandemic. Perhaps not the best time to launch a new beauty business – but that’s what Bobbi Brown has done.
Phantom of the Opera was first performed 35 years ago in London’s West End. It has just reopened and Lucy St Louis is playing the female lead – Christine Daae, the first Black woman to play this role.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds hello there |
| 0:30.6 | welcome to weekend woman's hour Choice cuts from the week just gone. |
| 0:35.7 | Women can write and talk badly about men, often in sexist terms. Why is that acceptable in a way |
| 0:42.2 | that would no longer be permitted the other way round? |
| 0:45.0 | Well that's the view of journalist James Innis Smith, more from him in a bit. |
| 0:50.0 | Hugo is the first person with a disability to feature on the dating reality TV show Love Island. |
| 0:56.0 | Well we speak to two bloggers about their experiences of being disabled, dating and how to communicate your wants and needs during sex. |
| 1:04.0 | I said, you know you're going to have to help me onto the toilet at some point, right? |
| 1:07.5 | And he was like, yeah, should we just stop at the services and get it out the way? |
| 1:11.0 | And I was like, yeah, let's do it. |
| 1:12.0 | So we stopped at the services and |
| 1:15.4 | we sent all my PAs pictures from the toilet of me having a we and him helping me |
| 1:20.0 | we were like couples first so you know sometimes it's about making light of those |
| 1:24.4 | situations. The entrepreneur Bobby Brown and trailblazer of the natural look on |
| 1:29.3 | starting her new beauty brand and a treat not one but two performers. We speak to Lucy St Louis, |
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