R4 Rethink: how might we design our world better post Covid?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today Radio 4 launches Rethink - a series of essays and discussions right across BBC Radio that ask how the world might change after the pandemic. We begin with an essay from Stirling Prize winning architect Amanda Levete asking how we could design the world around us differently. Has being confined to our homes and immediate communities taught us new things about what we need and want from them? How will more remote working change the role of the office? How might we now start to build for better and more equal societies? Jane is joined by architect Elsie Owusu OBE, economist Kate Raworth and 2019 Stirling Prize winner Annalie Riches, all with their own ideas of how Covid-19 could transform our homes and communities.
Some medics have expressed concerns over a possible future rise in stillbirths and harm to babies because pregnant women in need of attention may have avoided seeking professional help during the pandemic. Jane speaks to Dr Maggie Blott, Consultant Obstetrician and Lead for Obstetrics at the Royal Free in London and spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Trichotillomania is often referred to as “hair-pulling disorder”. It’s thought it affects 1 in 50 people, with 80% of them women. Why do people do it? And what can be done to help people stop? Jane discusses the condition with Roisin Kelly, who is a journalist at the Sunday Times Style magazine and has written about her personal experience, and Louise Watson, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, and Hattie Gilford who has her own dedicated Instagram account @my_trich_journey.
Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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 |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 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, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey. |
| 0:37.0 | It is Monday, June the 22nd, 2020, which has a ring to it, I don't know why, |
| 0:42.0 | and here is the |
| 0:43.3 | Women's Hour podcast hello welcome to the program good morning to you we're |
| 0:47.1 | live from Broadcasting House and we're also going to put the wreath into rethink on |
| 0:51.7 | women's hour this morning we'll be asking in what I hope will be a |
| 0:55.2 | full-blooded conversation how our homes could be post-Covid. Let's just take |
| 1:01.6 | this as a moment of opportunity to change the way we live, |
| 1:05.0 | how we live, where we live. |
| 1:07.0 | Of course at the moment so many people up against it in terms of paying their mortgage, |
| 1:11.0 | finding money for their rent, not knowing how things are going to be in a couple of months, |
| 1:15.0 | perhaps longing for a home of their own and currently completely without one, |
| 1:20.0 | and we don't have enough affordable housing we know in the UK so much to think about |
| 1:24.7 | we will also focus on the way our homes look right now and how they might have to |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

