PHONE-IN. Jenni Murray takes your calls on your experience of being fat
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sofie Hagan is a young Danish comedian and author of Happy Fat. We spoke to her on the programme earlier in the year. She’s now touring the UK and has been talking about some of the issues raised in the book as well as tweeting about it. ‘I am not a body positivity campaigner,’ she said, ‘I am a fat liberationist. I care about abolishing the systemic discrimination and abuse that fat people endure on a daily basis.’
What’s your experience of being fat? Do you think your size affects the way people see and treat you?
Share your stories and experiences. Call 03700 100 444 lines open from 0800 or email via the website…
Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell
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| 0:36.1 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, |
| 0:38.6 | here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.8 | My name's Linda Davies, and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:44.4 | As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things, |
| 0:59.2 | like pop stars, poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories. |
| 1:04.4 | And that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.3 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 1:09.4 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Hour Podcast. |
| 1:21.0 | Good morning. At 8 o'clock today I told you that Women's I would be a |
| 1:26.6 | phone in about being fat and the kind of abuse and discrimination, the obese and overweight |
| 1:32.2 | suffer on a daily basis. The calls and |
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