Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Anita and Annie are joined by Kalpona Akter, an ambassador for The Circle who worked in a garment factory when she was just 12 years old. The government’s first Menopause Employment Champion Helen Tomlinson joins the programme to discuss how she will advise employers on improving workplace support for women experiencing menopause symptoms. And we hear about a revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 drama of passion, delusion and mental illness – A Streetcar Named Desire. Following a run at the Almeida Theatre in January it has transferred to the West End and opens at the Phoenix Theatre in London on Monday. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law, Stanley. Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan, who play Blanche and Stella respectively, join Anita Rani to discuss their characters and the sisters’ relationship. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Tim Heffer

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.2	Good morning, welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour.
0:12.6	Here's a question for all of you.
0:14.2	Does Mom know best?
0:15.9	A survey has found that nearly half of us ignored the advice our mothers gave us
0:20.4	until apparently we had our own children.
0:23.2	Then half of us realised they made sense all along.
0:26.6	A third that was surveyed said they'd wished they'd listened to their mum
0:29.6	and a fifth said they'd turned into a younger version of their mother.
0:33.7	But how about you?
0:35.2	Did your mum know best all along?
0:37.6	What's advice were you given that you may have rejected when you were younger
0:40.9	only to realise she was right?
0:42.8	Or are you the teenage rebel turned good girl?
0:46.2	Or does that not make any sense to you as you've done everything to oppose
0:49.4	what your mother wanted from you?
0:50.7	Break them old, go your own way.
0:52.8	Maybe your values and beliefs are completely different
0:55.7	or your political point of view, the opposite ends of the spectrum.
0:59.2	Maybe mums don't always know everything.
1:01.7	They only know what they know after all based on their own upbringing
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