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Woman's Hour

On Weekend Woman’s Hour: Kate Bush, Olivia Harrison, Amanda Blanc, Althea Gibson, frozen embryos and women in comedy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In a world exclusive, Kate Bush speaks to Emma Barnett about being discovered by a new generation and making it to number 1 in the UK singles charts 44 years after her first chart-topper Wuthering Heights. Running Up That Hill was first released in 1985 and its use in the Netflix hit series Stranger Things has made Kate Bush a social media and streaming sensation. The physical and emotional challenges of in vitro fertilisation, or IVF, never fade from your memory - whatever the outcome. But what happens when you have been lucky enough to have a child or children and you still have frozen embryos in storage you are sure you will not use? You can donate to another couple in need, to science, let them be discarded or continue to preserve them. Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Newcastle University and two women who have faced this join Emma. The comedians Katherine Ryan and Sara Pascoe have been making headlines in recent weeks following comments they made on Katherine’s new TV show. Both revealed instances when they’ve worked with men they believe to be predatory and despite complaining these men have not been reprimanded. Emma is joined by Kathryn Roberts who quit comedy because of her experiences and also by Chloe Petts who will be performing her show Transience at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. Olivia Harrison has penned a book of poetry called "Came the Lightening" to celebrate her husband, George Harrison's life, more than twenty years after his death.. As lead guitarist of The Beatles, his most famous songs included While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Here Comes the Sun. What prompted her to share her memories in poetry? She tells Emma. As Wimbledon is set to begin on Monday, we discover the story behind Althea Gibson the first Black woman to win Wimbledon in 1957 and 1958. Writer and performer Kemi-Bo Jacobs was so inspired by her that she has written a one-woman play, 'All White Everything But Me' about her. She joins Anita to tell her more. The Treasury's Women in Finance Charter has published its annual review looking at gender diversity within the financial sector in the UK for 2021. Amanda Blanc is CEO of Aviva, the UK’s leading insurer and leads the Women in Finance Charter and speaks to Emma about the review as well as her experiences of sexism as one of a handful of female FTSE 100 bosses.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, where we bring you the must-hier interviews from the

0:14.7

week just gone and what a show for you we have today.

0:18.4

Coming up, a world exclusive.

0:21.0

We speak to Kate Bush about her new generation of fans.

0:25.7

We talk about what women do with frozen embryos when they're no longer going to use them,

0:30.3

and Olivia Harrison, wife of Beatle George, tells us about her new collection of poems

0:35.9

in memory of her late husband.

0:38.1

Now, I won't keep you waiting too long.

0:41.5

The world exclusive interview I mentioned, Kate Bush, has suddenly found she has a whole

0:47.2

new generation of fans, a lot of them in their teens and 20s because of the use of her

0:52.1

song Running Up That Hill in Netflix show Stranger Things, which is set in the 80s.

0:56.8

Emma spoke to Kate on the good old fashioned landline and started by asking her how she

1:02.2

was feeling about reaching number one with Running Up That Hill 37 years on.

1:07.4

It's just extraordinary.

1:09.4

It's such a great series.

1:11.1

I thought that the track would get some attention, but I just never imagined that it would

1:16.2

be anything like this.

1:17.8

It's so exciting.

1:18.8

It's so exciting that it's quite shocking, isn't it?

1:22.7

I mean, the whole world's gone mad.

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