Saxophonist Nubya Garcia, Rainbow babies, Insomnia, Vaccine passports
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Over the weekend Carrie Johnson announced she was expecting another baby describing it as a "rainbow" baby because she'd experienced a miscarriage earlier this year. Ruth Bender Atik from The Miscarriage Association talks to Andrea. Journalist Miranda Levy describes her new book, ‘The Insomnia Diaries’, as a ‘self-help’ memoir looking at eight and a half years of disabling insomnia. Miranda recovered and has used her experience to explain what she thinks we should do when facing insomnia and- what NOT to do. Daisy Maskell is a tv and radio presenter. In a soon-to-be-aired BBC 3 documentary she says she realised at the age of nine that she didn’t sleep like other people. They join Andrea. Watching the Olympics on TV is not what Amber Hill imagined she would be doing. The night before she was due to leave the UK for Tokyo, the 23 year old shooter had to withdraw from the Games after testing positive for Covid. She was due to compete in the Women's Olympics Skeet competition, in which she was a finalist in Rio in 2016. This time she was number one in the world and hopeful of a gold medal but had to watch the American, Amber English, take the medal. Are vaccine passports gendered? Dr Clare Wenham who's an Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at LSE says introducing them will limit women’s public opportunities and further entrench the gendered norms of men at work and women in the home which have been compounded over the last year. British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia has been nominated for a Mercury Prize, and is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent. She makes her Proms debut later this month, performing music from her album Source.
Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:41.0 | Hello I'm Andrea Catharwood and welcome to Womensower from podcasts. on Women's Hour Today, do you know what a rainbow baby is? It's a term that many of us had never heard of just a few days ago, |
| 0:57.1 | but it's been all over the news this weekend since Carrie Johnson announced on |
| 1:01.1 | Instagram that she and the Prime Minister |
| 1:03.4 | we're expecting another baby we're going to be discussing that. |
| 1:06.4 | Also on the program we're looking at missing out today. |
| 1:09.1 | Now almost all of us have missed out |
| 1:11.6 | on important things in life because of COVID, but few more than Amber |
| 1:15.7 | Hill. |
| 1:16.7 | She's number one in the world, in her sport, and she should have been competing in the Olympics |
| 1:21.4 | in Tokyo right now. But she couldn't go when she tested |
| 1:24.9 | positive for COVID the night before her flight. I'll be talking to her later. |
| 1:29.6 | And more of us, particularly women, are missing out on sleep since the pandemic. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm joined by two women who really know what they're talking about when it comes to sleepless nights |
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