Owen Paterson MP on the suicide of his wife Rose, Evy Cohen, GeorgiaElliot-Smith and music from Manika Kaur
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Emma Barnett talks to the former cabinet minister Owen Paterson about the suicide of his wife Rose and the charity he's founded in her memory. Evy Cohen talks about Prince Philip and how his mother Princess Alice saved her family from the Holocaust, Georgia Elliot-Smith asks if we should stop shaming women about waste and recyling and as Sikhs and Hindus prepare to celebrate the festival of Vaisakhi (solar new year) we talk to the singer Manika Kaur.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Engineer: Joe Yon
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womanza from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:41.0 | On today's program, we hear from Evie Cohen who owes her life to Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice. |
| 0:47.0 | It is a remarkable story of bravery, compassion and sisterhood and one the Duke of Edinburgh didn't know himself for a long time. |
| 0:55.4 | Also as the Sikh and Hindu festival of Vassaki the Solar New Year is celebrated, some music |
| 1:01.7 | from the celebrated artist Manneka Core. |
| 1:05.0 | But first, we're going to talk about Rose Patterson. |
| 1:08.9 | In June last year, Rose Patterson, the 63-year-old chairman of Aintry Racecours home of the Grand National |
| 1:15.3 | and the wife of the Conservative MP and former Cabinet Minister Owen Patterson took her own life. |
| 1:21.7 | For him, it came without warning and has left the family, their three children, |
| 1:26.7 | in anguish and misery. Now ten months on, he has just launched the Rose Patterson Trust, |
| 1:32.3 | a charity dedicated to raising money for suicide prevention and suicide bereavement. |
| 1:38.0 | Owen Patterson joins me now. Good morning, Emma. |
| 1:42.0 | I thought we could start just there about Rose. Tell us what she |
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