Political women and language, The morality of sleep medication
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BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Political women, gender and speech: Laurie Taylor talks to Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, about her analysis of the performances of the three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. What were the similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves and how was it taken up as an issue in media coverage of the campaign? Also, the morality of sleep medications. Jonathan Gabe, Professor of Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, talks about his study into attitudes towards the prescribing and taking of sleeping pills. Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co.ukdot UK. Oh, darling, could you stop moving about for a moment? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm trying to get |
| 0:18.0 | darling, could you stop moving about for a moment? |
| 0:24.0 | I'm trying to get some sleep. |
| 0:26.0 | It's nearly one o'clock. |
| 0:28.0 | I've got a program to do today. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, I've got hot tonight. It's clummy, isn't it? Is the window open? There's only one way to deal with this bedside table behind the alarm clock. Little packet, |
| 0:54.0 | it's light around the thing. |
| 0:57.0 | Squeeze out my pill, a little white pill. |
| 1:00.0 | Great. |
| 1:01.0 | Six hours, guaranteed good sleep. |
| 1:05.0 | That's better. Now why on earth did I wait so long before taking that little pill? |
| 1:25.1 | And why did I try to keep my pill popping something of a secret? |
| 1:29.6 | I mean, how is it that sleep medication seems to arouse so much more anxiety than, say, well, |
| 1:34.9 | swallowing a headache pill or a statin tablet? Well, I can learn some answers now because |
| 1:40.5 | I'm joined in the studio by the lead author of an article published in the journal |
| 1:44.7 | Sociology of Health and Illness under the title Prescriptions and Proscriptions, |
| 1:49.3 | Moralizing Sleep Medicine's. |
| 1:52.1 | And the lead author of that is Jonathan Gabe, who's professor of |
| 1:55.2 | sociology at Royal Holloway University of London. Now Jonathan, your |
| 2:00.0 | research really does show that my concern about taking sleeping medication is |
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