Oti Mabuse's second Strictly win; Virtual child protection conferences; Liz Berry's poetry
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Labour MP Stella Creasy joins us to discuss buy now pay later services, and whether they should be regulated.
Oti Mabuse and partner Bill Bailey have been crowned Strictly Come Dancing champions as they took the 2020 glitter ball trophy home on Saturday. Oti Mabuse is the first professional to win the competition two years in a row. Next year, she is going on tour with her new show ‘I AM HERE', which explores her journey from growing up in South Africa, to becoming a multi-award winning dancer.
The mezzo-soprano Patricia Hammond is celebrating the parlour song. Composed by women, these domestic songs of the Victorian era have largely been marginalised or forgotten. In her new book and CD, She Wrote the Songs, she tells us about the women behind the songs and their importance to musical history.
We heard earlier in the pandemic that in-person meetings for vulnerable children had become mostly impossible. But now child protection professionals feel that face-to-face conferences are unlikely to ever resume. So what does that mean for the children in question? And what is missed as a result? Lisa Harker from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory joins us.
A new BBC three-part drama Black Narcissus tells the story of a group of Anglo-Catholic nuns who travel to the Himalayas to set up a school in an abandoned clifftop palace, which was once known as the 'House of Women'. It's adapted from Rumer Godden's 1939 novel, and the writer Amanda Coe joins Jane to discuss.
The breast surgeon and breast cancer survivor, Liz O'Riordan, tells us the story behind her 'Jar of Joy'.
And the award-winning poet Liz Berry shares her evocative poetry inspired by her love for the Black Country.
Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Rosie Stopher Editor: Beverley Purcell
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| 0:41.0 | Good afternoon. I hope that you're having a happy boxing day, whatever shape that's taking for you this year. |
| 0:47.0 | Now if you shopped online for Christmas presents, you may well have seen or even used the Buy Now Pay Later service from |
| 0:54.9 | Klana that many retailers are offering. But as the Advertising Standards |
| 0:59.7 | Authority deems an Instagram shopping campaign at launch during the first lockdown |
| 1:04.4 | irresponsible should more be done to protect consumers. The strictly come |
| 1:10.1 | dancing reigning champion Oti Mabuse us, how is her second victory in two years |
| 1:16.0 | sinking in? |
| 1:17.6 | And Metso Soprano Patricia Hammond explores the entire genre is the fact that this genre was the only way that women composers could actually create and express themselves. Well we've all had to get used to virtual meetings this year, but even in a post-pandemic world, |
| 1:46.0 | will child protection services ever get back to essential in-person conferences? |
| 1:52.0 | A new adaptation of Rumor Gooden's 1939 novel Black Narcissus begins tomorrow. |
| 1:58.8 | Why do nuns make such good television? Consultant breast surgeon, Liz Reardon, explains how a jar of joy is key to keeping her spirits up. |
| 2:11.0 | And the poet Liz Berry shares the inspiration behind her poetry featured |
| 2:15.7 | on musician Kerris Matthews new album. I remember simultaneously feeling both completely |
| 2:21.8 | raw like I'd shed a skin and also as if the world was |
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