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Woman's Hour

Rhian Graham, Who is Sue Gray?, Hopeline19

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Who is Sue Gray, the civil servant tasked with investigating the Downing Street parties and has she been put in an impossible position? Caroline Slocock former private secretary to Margaret Thatcher and John Major and political journalist Jane Merrick discuss. Rhian Graham along with three other defendants were cleared of criminal damage by Bristol Crown Court after toppling the statue of the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. Rhian joins Emma. Nearly 5000 messages have been left on a free phone number set up to allow people to give messages of thanks for NHS staff. Hopeline19 was founded by psychotherapist Claire Goodwin-Fee. She argues that NHS workers are not receiving enough mental health support. Hopeline19 grew out of Frontline19, a service offering mental health support to NHS workers that Claire established in March 2020. We all know how complicated relationships can be – especially when it comes to our parents. What is the best way to cope when we find ourselves stuck in the middle of our parents’ relationship? How can we learn to step back from being the family relationship therapist? We hear about two women’s experiences – listener Shely and life coach Diana Higgins. The pandemic put the brakes on everyone’s lives. For freelance journalist Lucy Holden, it has been a time for reflection. At the age of 30 she was forced to move back home with her parents and take stock of a wild decade lived in the fast-lane - a mechanism to avoid the pain and trauma of her past. She joins Emma to talk about her upcoming memoir: Lucid: A memoir of an extreme decade in an extreme generation. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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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

Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.0

Now when the Prime Minister is asked about the latest party said to have happened in the Downey Street

0:44.1

Garden on the 20th of May 2020 at the height of lockdown one.

0:49.3

He only has two words to say. Sue Gray, aka the woman tasked with investigating the slew of parties

0:56.0

said to have happened within the corridors of power at the same time the rest of the

0:59.7

country were living under the strictest restrictions imposed during peacetime.

1:04.0

The Prime Minister is understood by the BBC to have attended this party,

1:08.0

along with his wife, and around 30 or so other staffers,

1:12.0

after more than 100 were were invited and is awaiting the findings of

1:16.2

her inquiry.

1:17.2

Well today we're going to look at who Sue Gray is, the 64-year-old top civil servant,

1:22.3

presently the second permanent secretary at the department for level. the expected to report back within the next 10 to 14 days or so. We're also going to ask

1:35.3

who else should resign over these parties because so far there has only been one

1:39.8

resignation and it was by a woman, Allegra Stratton, the former press secretary to the Prime Minister,

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