Potty training, Going away with friends, Jude
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to potty training, we unpick the fads from what works. Rebecca Mottram, a children’s nurse who now runs her own business teaching potty training and Christina Hardyment, author of Dream Babies help us to work out the dos and don’ts - and what has changed over the years. Netflix's new comedy film Wine Country stars Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as friends who go away to the Napa Valley to celebrate a 50th birthday. During the course of the weekend, wine is drunk, singing and dancing ensue - and, tensions arise. We discuss why trips with female friends so often follow this formula with actor, Arabella Weir and Tianna Johnson, the founder of Black Girls Camping Trip. A play, loosely based on Thomas Hardy's 1895 tragic novel Jude the Obscure, has opened at the Hampstead Theatre in London. In this version Jude is a woman, a cleaner, a Syrian refugee who dreams of studying Classics at Oxford University. Actor, Isabella Nefar is joined by Karin Koehler, editor of the Thomas Hardy journal and a lecturer at Bangor University to discuss the challenge of re-working well-known characters for the stage. And, reporter Henrietta Harrison hears about a new libretto by Sheila Hill, performed by a community choir of women and children trained by Glyndebourne opera house in Sussex.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Ruth Watts
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
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| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Our Podcast for Thursday the 9th of May. |
| 0:42.1 | In Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obsecure a young man from a working class |
| 0:45.5 | background longs for a university education. In a reworking of the story for the theatre |
| 0:51.6 | Jude is a woman, a refugee from Syria who longs to study |
| 0:55.6 | classics at Oxford. Potty training, we look at the history of getting a child out of nappies |
| 1:01.8 | and ask whether the new idea of putting a new baby |
| 1:04.8 | straight onto the toilet actually works. And I-2-I, a community choir of women and |
| 1:11.0 | children, will celebrate the early years of being a parent at the Brighton |
| 1:15.2 | dome. Now tomorrow a new film will be released on Netflix called Wine Country. It's about a group of friends who go away for a weekend in Napa Valley |
| 1:26.2 | home of many of California's vineyards and they're up for celebrating a 50th birthday |
| 1:32.4 | with some wine tasting. |
| 1:34.0 | Let me know what you smell. There's no wrong answers. |
| 1:37.0 | Green apple? |
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