Sharon Osbourne, Shani Dhanda, Nurses and their mental health
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
For more than two decades, Sharon Osbourne has been a regular feature on our screens. She came to prominence while appearing with her husband Ozzy on The Osbournes - a reality television show on MTV, which followed the family's daily life. She later became a talent show judge on television programmes such as the X Factor and America's Got Talent. She joins Anita Rani to discuss her forthcoming theatre show - Sharon Osbourne - Cut The Crap! - in which she promises to reveal all about some of the hardest years of her eventful life.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is warning of a growing mental health crisis amongst nursing staff, as its membership support line data shows a substantial increase in the number of nursing staff seeking help for having suicidal thoughts. We hear from Hannah Cadogan - a nurse currently working in the NHS - and Stephen Jones, the Lead for Mental Health at the RCN to unpick what lies behind this increase.
Dr Shani Dhanda is a disability inclusion & accessibility specialist, social entrepreneur and broadcaster. This month she was named the UK’s most influential disabled person by the Shaw Trust as part of the Disability Power 100 nominated by the public and judged by an independent panel. Shani is also an Ambassador for disability charity Scope. The Autumn Statement was controversial in its announcements affecting sick and disabled people, with the Government claiming their changes would support more people into work and campaigners and some professionals saying they could make the situation worse. Shani joins us to give her take, but also to discuss her life.
Women composers for the film, TV and gaming industries are rare; this month a report, Female Professionals in European Film Production 2023 revealed only 10% of European film composers are women; and in this year’s GameSoundCon Game Audio Industry Survey, women game composers and sound designers made up only 15% of the talent. Anita discusses what can be done to reduce the gender gap in the media music industry with the composers Hannah Peel and Bishi.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service. |
| 0:04.7 | Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests. |
| 0:08.8 | Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook. |
| 0:11.2 | Technology doesn't want to be good or bad. |
| 0:15.0 | It's in the hands of the creator. |
| 0:16.7 | It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room. |
| 0:20.7 | If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing. |
| 0:26.0 | Julie, at your service, listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. B. |
| 0:33.0 | B. C Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour |
| 0:39.0 | from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:41.0 | We have some incredible women on the program as per usual, real powerhouses, all of whom |
| 0:46.8 | have had at some point to stand up and take charge of a situation. What a lineup today. |
| 0:52.1 | I cannot wait to talk to Sharon Osborne who fiercely |
| 0:55.9 | defends her family and arguably has built her family. She is without a doubt the |
| 1:00.7 | rock at the center of it. |
| 1:02.6 | Also joining me will be Shani Dander, a disability activist |
| 1:06.2 | who has overcome so much prejudice to become |
| 1:08.9 | the remarkable and inspirational woman |
| 1:11.0 | who's just been named the UK's most influential disabled person and |
| 1:14.4 | Hannah Peel and Bischie two of the very few women composing music for screen and |
| 1:19.7 | pushing for change. Plus we'll be talking about how nurses are coping with the |
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