Singing nuns, Long Covid, US presidential elections, Victoria Wood, Women and homelessness, Sister Bliss.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Poor Clares of Arundel are a community of nuns. They've just released an album'Light for the World' described as 'traditional plainchant with added beats'. We hear from Sisters Leo & Sisters Aelread.
What impact is Long Covid having on women’s lives, and where are we with treatment and support?
How will the female vote impact the USA presidential elections? Melissa Milewski, a lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex and Dr Michell Chresfield Lecturer in United States History, at the University of Birmingham discuss.
The number of women sleeping rough and living in temporary accommodation has risen. Katya Adler hears from Dame Louise Casey who, as “Homelesssness Tsar”, championed the “Everyone In” policy which got rough sleepers off the street and into temporary accommodation during the height of the pandemic and Petra Salva, the head of the Rough Sleepers Unit at the charity St. Mungos.
Sister Bliss is a DJ, songwriter and electronic artist. She is perhaps best-known as a member of the British electronic band Faithless.
Victoria Wood, the Lancashire born comedian, writer, actor, stand up and singer died in 2016 having never written her own story. With access to letters, and interviews with friends and family Jasper Rees has written ‘Let’s Do it’ – The Authorized Biography of Victoria Wood.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, good afternoon, and a warm welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:09.8 | Now, this afternoon, we're going to be just reveling in the comedy genius |
| 0:13.8 | of the late Victoria Wood in the company of her biographer, Jasper Reese. |
| 0:18.6 | And here he is telling me, when Victoria realized she could write gags. |
| 0:23.6 | Julie plays a character who's not quite sure whether she's pregnant or not, |
| 0:26.4 | and this woman comes in and says, |
| 0:27.9 | where are you in the menstrual cycles? |
| 0:30.0 | And Julie says, Taurus. |
| 0:31.7 | And there was a kind of, you know, |
| 0:33.6 | whoosh of laughter every night. |
| 0:35.7 | But that is her first ever joke. |
| 0:37.7 | She's doing a joke about menstruation. |
| 0:40.6 | I love Victoria Wood, and I really enjoyed talking to Jasper Reese. |
| 0:44.3 | And you can hear more from him this afternoon. |
| 0:46.6 | I will talk to Sister Bliss, the DJ's songwriter and electronic artist, |
| 0:51.3 | and here from the nuns of Arondoll, the poor clairs of Arondoll, |
| 0:55.4 | who have a new album out. |
| 0:57.3 | And we'll talk to about women and homelessness, |
| 1:00.4 | and just why that problem has increased |
| 1:03.2 | during the coronavirus period. |
| 1:06.0 | Now, new research at this week suggests that one in 45 people who get COVID-19 |
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