Rethink: How might our relationship with our bodies and appearance change after the pandemic?, Public Speaking, Pregnancy
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
How might our relationship with our bodies and appearance change after the pandemic? As part of the BBC's Rethink series, Laura Bates, the founder of the Everyday Sexism project, Kate Lister, Lecturer in the School of Arts and Communication at Leeds Trinity University, and Shahidha Bari, Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at the London College of Fashion discuss.
Dr Amanda Brown has been working as a GP at Bronzefield, a women-only prison. In her new book. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside, she shares the stories of many of the women she has met inside the prison.
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. 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 explains.
Theresa May has made a million pounds on the speaker circuit since she stood down as Prime Minister just under a year ago. The big fee paying events are still relatively male dominated, so how can women succeed at public speaking? Viv Groskop, author and podcast presenter of 'How to Own the Room', and Professor Heather McGregor, Executive Dean of Edinburgh Business School at Heriot Watt University discuss.
How to Cook the Perfect… Beetroot leaf rolls with buckwheat and mushrooms with Ukrainian chef, food writer and stylist Olia Hercules.
The new BBC1 drama 'I May Destroy You' centres around a writer called Arabella who is drugged and sexually assaulted but has no recollection of the assault except in flashbacks and has to piece together what happened to her. We hear from Weruche Opia who plays Arabella’s best friend, Terry, Zing Tsjeng, executive editor of Vice UK and the poet Vanessa Kisuule.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:34.4 | Hi, good afternoon and a warm welcome to the weekend edition of Women's Hour. |
| 0:38.2 | This week, a reminder for anybody who's pregnant that it really is perfectly safe to make sure you get really good |
| 0:44.8 | antinatal care even if it means going into a hospital. You can hear about |
| 0:50.2 | Michaela Cole's much-disc discussed TV series I May Destroy You, a series that features period |
| 0:56.8 | blood on screen. |
| 0:58.5 | I screened in shock because I have genuinely never seen period blood portrayed in that way on screen before and I watch a lot of TV and I think it's actually almost sad that in a decade where I've seen more men and women get murdered on screen. It takes a blood clot to make someone like me |
| 1:15.1 | set up and take notice and say I have never seen that before. That is genuinely radical and |
| 1:19.5 | new and refreshing. We can also hear some thought-provoking stuff from the GP at |
| 1:24.8 | bronze-field women's prison, Amanda Brown, and we celebrate the cuisine of the |
| 1:29.6 | Ukraine. How about this, beetroot leaf rolls with buckwheat and mushrooms coming up? |
| 1:36.0 | I'll have three please. Now first rethink which is a series of essays and |
| 1:41.6 | conversations across 5 Live, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service |
| 1:46.2 | over the last week. It's about how the world might change as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. |
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