Raye, Women swimming the Channel, Anita Hill, Adaptive fashion
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The South London singer-songwriter Raye joins Emma Barnett following her record-breaking six wins at the Brit awards last weekend. Raye tells us about her grandma Agatha who joined her on stage after winning Best Album for My 21st Century Blues. She also talks about being a woman in the music industry and the strength she has found from fellow female musician Charli XCX.
The English channel has always held an allure for endurance swimmers the world over, but the first British woman to complete it was Mercedes Gleitze. She achieved this feat in 1927 and a new film, Vindication Swim, recreates that moment in history. Kirsten Callaghan plays Mercedes, she joins Emma along with the current channel swimmer Sarah Philpott to explain what it’s like to spend that long in open water, and what drives women to do it.
It’s the Oscars this weekend, the first ceremony since the Academy introduced new diversity rules for all candidates. But almost seven years since the start of the Me Too movement - has Hollywood really become a safer place for the women who work there? According to the latest survey by the Hollywood Commission, which was set up in 2017 to help stop workplace harassment and discrimination in the entertainment industry, there's still a lot of work to do. Emma speaks to the chair of the Hollywood Commission, the activist, academic and author Anita Hill.
If you had 20 minutes with the Prime Minister what would you use your time to ask? Grazia magazine, ahead of International Women's Day this week, chose to focus on the personal and the domestic in a series of three videos which have had a lot of reaction online. Lindsay Nicholson, writer and former editor of various women's magazines including Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan, joins Emma to discuss.
Children with a disability, or limited mobility, often need some type of adjustment to garments so they can wear them. It’s known as adaptive clothing and whilst there are a growing number of brands offering this, they’re not widely available on the high street. My next guests are trying to raise awareness of this with a fashion show. Andrea Jester is a leading hand and upper limb plastic surgeon at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Carmen Burkett is a fashion lecturer at South and City College in Birmingham. They’ve teamed up to put Andrea's young patients - or models as they’ve become - in touch with student designers.
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| 0:00.0 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
| 0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
| 0:16.0 | Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer. |
| 0:20.0 | Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B. |
| 0:24.1 | I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things. |
| 0:30.0 | Young again, with me, Kirstie Young, |
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| 0:40.0 | Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Women's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Just to say that for |
| 0:46.9 | rights reasons the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this |
| 0:51.6 | podcast. Good morning and welcome to the program. |
| 0:55.0 | We have the Woman of the Moment, |
| 0:57.0 | Ray, who just bagged the highest number of Brit awards |
| 1:01.0 | in one night, having been released by her label with her music |
| 1:05.0 | to take away that the executives didn't think would sell. Well she's certainly |
| 1:08.9 | having the last love and she's my first guest today. We're also going to be hearing from Women Taking to the Seas |
| 1:16.0 | and the legendary American feminist lawyer Anita Hill. |
| 1:20.0 | But have you heard of this thing |
| 1:22.0 | that if you have coming up up Friday, international women's day. |
| 1:26.0 | Droll jokes aside and of course there are some important things that get marked on that day |
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