Shobna Gulati. British Touring Car driver Jade Edwards. Playground politics. Sarah Brown.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
When actor Shobna Gulati’s mum was diagnosed with dementia in 2017, she was already spending the majority of her time caring for her. Their sometimes difficult relationship was tested to the limit, but ultimately she gained a lot from those years spent in her mum’s front room. When she passed away last year she decided to write a book about her family and her mum’s illness called Remember Me? Discovering my mother as she lost her memory.
At the weekend Jade Edwards will become the first woman in 13 years to race in the British Touring Car Championship at Silverstone. So why's it taken so long to see another woman on the course? Jade joins us, along with Fiona Leggate, the last female driver who competed back in 2007. Have you been given the silent treatment by another parent at school, or felt excluded from a group of mums? Now the new school year is well underway, playground politics can sometimes extend to the other side of the school gate. Jane discusses coping strategies with counselling psychologist Dr Rachel Allan and Tanith Carey, author of The Friendship Maze and Taming the Tiger Parent.
Because of the Covid 19 pandemic up to 10 million children around the world are likely to be permanently excluded from getting an education according to the UK charity Theirworld. It's run by Sarah Brown, wife of the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Ahead of a virtual session later today at the UN General Assembly Meeting she talks to Jane about how the charity advocates on global education issues at both a strategic and practical level .
Presenter Jane Garvey. Producer Beverley Purcell
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey and welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast. It is Monday, the 21st |
| 0:10.2 | of September 2020 and here's the program. Hello, very good morning to you today. I'll |
| 0:17.2 | be talking to the actor, Shobuna Galati. She'll talk about caring for her mom who had dementia |
| 0:22.7 | and she's got some really good advice about that. So it'll be interesting to hear from Shobuna |
| 0:26.9 | a little later. A playground politics. The schools are open again, but do you find the playground |
| 0:32.8 | a difficult place to be as a parent? Do you get the cold shoulder? Some interesting comments from |
| 0:37.6 | you already. This is from our Instagram. It's such a relief, says this listener, when your youngest |
| 0:43.0 | gets to secondary school and you don't have to pretend to like the PTA, everybody else, |
| 0:48.4 | being perky at 8.30 in the morning, being a competitive mom, school playground power games, |
| 0:54.1 | and that Queen B. Is it really that bad in Britain's playgrounds? Let us know at BBC Woman's Hour |
| 1:01.2 | on social media or you can email the program via our website. Also today we'll talk to the |
| 1:06.3 | first woman in over a decade to take part in the British Touring Car Championship. She is Jade |
| 1:12.5 | Edwards. She is compete at Silverstone this weekend. She's got a voxel Astra with a sequential |
| 1:18.4 | gearbox. There'll be more on that a little later in the program today. Now we know that the |
| 1:23.6 | impact of Covid on education has been immense even here in the UK. Now the UK charity their world |
| 1:31.8 | is warning that millions of children all over the world are actually likely to be permanently |
| 1:37.2 | excluded from education as a result of the coronavirus. There are also more likely to end up in a |
| 1:42.9 | child marriage or to be exploited through child labour and of course girls will be disproportionately |
| 1:50.5 | affected. Sarah Brown, a wife of the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, runs their world |
| 1:54.8 | and it is in charge of a session later on today at this year's UN General Assembly Meeting |
| 2:01.2 | and it's virtual of course so there's a chance for you to join in and hear the debate. |
| 2:06.3 | Sarah Brown, good morning to you. Morning Jane. First of all just take us through how this will |
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