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Woman's Hour

Paris Hilton, Anneka Rice, Gas & Air, Budget 2023

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Paris Hilton, reality TV star, so-called 'inventor of the selfie,' and business woman, joins Anita to talk about her new book 'Paris: The Memoir.' The former socialite first appeared on-screen in the early noughties with her hit reality TV show, The Simple Life. Now she’s opening up about her life in the spotlight. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of the Spring Budget in the House of Commons. What has changed for women? Anita is joined by Sarah Pennells, Consumer Finance Specialist at Royal London and Claer Barrett, Consumer Editor at the FT to discuss the Chancellor’s plans to tackle the cost of living crisis, reform childcare, pensions and benefits. Some NHS maternity units in England have suspended the use of gas and air, also known as Entonox, in labour wards, after air quality tests showed unsafe levels of nitrous oxide on some maternity wards. Gas and air has been used for decades to help women in labour reduce their pain. But air quality tests have raised the risk of long-term effects for the midwives, nurses and doctors who are exposed to it for a long period of time in often-unventilated labour wards. Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian columnist has been looking into this developing story. Nearly 30 years after she last donned her legendary jumpsuit, TV presenter Anneka Rice is back on TV screens with a new series of Challenge Anneka. The original programmes aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s and saw her working on more than sixty huge scale projects, including renovating an orphanage in Romania and building a suspension bridge in Cornwall. She joins Woman's Hour to explain how this work changed the image of women on TV, and to discuss some of her fresh, epic challenges.

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.

0:10.6

Good morning, welcome to the program.

0:12.8

The original influencer, reality TV star and inventor of the selfie and said to be at one

0:17.7

point the highest paid female DJ in the world, Ares Paris Hilton is joining me on the program.

0:23.8

Her memoir came out this week and you can forget any preconceived ideas you may have

0:28.2

held about the young woman who made her name with a dumb blonde persona.

0:32.4

She's opened up about her life in the spotlight, being groomed by a teacher and the horrific

0:37.6

abuse she suffered as a teenager in a special school for troubled teens.

0:42.3

She has blown all assumptions about her out of the water with this book.

0:46.8

So this morning I want to hear what assumptions people have made about you, based on the way

0:51.8

you look, the way you sound, the way you dress, or indeed what judgments you may have

0:56.5

made about other people.

0:58.0

I feel I'm constantly smashing people's binary ideas of what Asian women can and can't

1:03.2

do.

1:04.2

It's one of my favourite things to do and I've been doing it my entire life.

1:07.4

But what about you?

1:08.4

Let's hear when you have crushed a judgement someone has made about you, how satisfying.

1:13.7

The text number is 84844.

1:16.0

You can contact us via social media, it's at BBC Woman's Hour.

1:19.4

You can email us through the website or you can contact me via WhatsApp or send me a voice

1:24.2

note, it's 03700-100444.

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