Quarterlife crisis, Family Courts, Northern Soul
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
A pilot scheme to allow journalists to report cases from three family courts in England and Wales is to be extended to almost half of the courts. From the end of January, coverage of cases at 16 more family court centres in England will be permitted. This means 19 of the 43 centres in England and Wales will be part of the Transparency Pilot. Families and individual social workers will be anonymous under the scheme. Krupa Padhy talks to Louise Tickle, a journalist who specialises in reporting on family courts and leads a project for the Bureau of Investigative journalism supporting other journalists to do the same, and Angela Frazer Wicks, Chair of the Family Rights Group and a parent with experience of the family justice system.
Popular psychology tends to define a quarter-life crisis as the confusion, stress and anxiety individuals in their 20s and 30s feel about their goals, beliefs and relationships as they seek direction in life and look to find their place in the world. Satya Doyle Byock, a clinical psychotherapist based in the US is the author of the new book Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood and she joins Krupa to talk about young people's struggles with the push and pull of meaning and stability.
Northern Soul is commonly associated with Northern England and the 1970s. But mother and daughter duo Levanna and Eve are turning this on its head. Through Levanna’s viral dance videos on social media and Eve’s DJing at their events in Bristol, they’re bringing Northern groove to the South West, all whilst introducing a new generation to the genre. They speak to Krupa about the release of their new album, Wonderful Night.
Shere Hite was a pioneering feminist sex researcher who published The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality in 1976. The book was seen by many as radical, changing prevailing notions about female sexuality. It laid out the views of 3,500 women on sexuality and the female orgasm, but it was derided by some, including Playboy, which dubbed it the "Hate Report". Shere went on to write and publish several more books, but endured intense and lasting criticism in the US, and eventually moved to Europe and renounced her American citizenship in 1995. She died in 2020. Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director Nicole Newnham felt that despite how influential Shere had been in life, that she has since been forgotten. So, Nicole produced the documentary, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, which is in UK cinemas from 12 January. She joins Krupa to discuss it.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Duncan Hannant
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Duncan Hannant
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Women's Our Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and thank you for being with us this morning. It's January that time of the year |
| 0:44.9 | when we might be reconsidering life priorities and our goals for the future. |
| 0:49.8 | It might be a particularly unsettling time for younger adults experiencing what some call the |
| 0:55.5 | quarter life crisis. |
| 0:57.4 | We're going to talk to a psychotherapist who says that she has heard at all. |
| 1:00.9 | Satya Doyle Bayoc writes, I quote, from subtle doubts to unrelenting panic, |
| 1:06.6 | there is undeniable epidemic suffering among young people in their late teens, |
| 1:11.4 | 20s and 30s. That tug of war between seeking stability and |
| 1:16.7 | finding meaning can of course manifest at any point in our adult lives. Have you |
| 1:22.0 | encountered that moment? What happened? How did you feel? How did you resolve it? |
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