Race issues in the nursing profession. Oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski. Desert Island Discs Day.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Carol Cooper was awarded Nursing’s Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year award in 2019, she is a Regional NHS Head of equality, diversity and human rights and is the a Royal College of Nursing expert lead for BME Suicide Awareness, Equality, Diversity and Human Rights. She is also a Registered Nurse. She talks to Jenni Murray about race issues in the nursing profession and the way it's being responded to as a risk factor, as the NHS tackles Covid-19.
More in our series celebrating the women who get things done – the Troupers. Today, Louise Kershaw, the treasurer of the Flixton Social Lites WI in Cheshire
Plus ahead of World Oceans Day on Monday, the physicist, oceanographer and bubbles enthusiast, Dr Helen Czerski, talks about her time on board the Pelagia, a Dutch Oceanographic research vessel and her mission to perform a comprehensive health check on the North Sea.
And as we celebrate Desert Island Discs Day on Radio 4, Danelle Pettman tells us about the track that’s made all the difference to her life in lock down.
Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; Carol Cooper Guest; Louise Kershaw Guest; Dr Helen Czerski, Guest; Danelle Pettman
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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 |
| 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. |
| 0:30.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Our Podcast for Friday, the 5th of June. |
| 0:40.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:42.2 | Next Monday will be World Oceans Day and there'll be a BBC 4 |
| 0:45.8 | documentary called Ocean Autopsy. What did Dr Helen Chersky find as she |
| 0:52.0 | checked the health of the North Sea and how might |
| 0:55.1 | nature fight back if we stop polluting with plastic pharmaceuticals and toxic |
| 1:01.4 | PCBs? On Desert Island this day I'll reveal my book, my luxury and a |
| 1:07.2 | couple of my chosen tracks and Daniel Petman will explain her choice of music that's |
| 1:12.1 | got her through her equivalent of a desert island, |
| 1:15.9 | the lockdown. |
| 1:17.6 | And the next of women's hour troopers. |
| 1:19.9 | Louise Kershaw is the treasurer of the Flixton Social Lights W.I. in Cheshire. |
| 1:27.0 | Now this week's news has been led by the Voices of the Black Lives Matter campaign following |
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