Singing Nuns, the US elections and women, the politicisation of Mumsnet? and what makes a good jobshare?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jane Garvey talks to Sisters Leo & Aelread from The Poor Clares of Arundel who've just released an album of traditional plainchant with added beats. What can we learn from them about living life in these times? It's a couple of weeks now til the Presidential elections in the States and to discuss what it will mean for women we talk to 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. Has Mumsnet the popular website for parents which has spawned thousands of discussion threads become too politicised? Sarah Pedersen, Professor of Communication and Media at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, talks about her new book on the subject and what makes a good job-share work? Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Tim Heffer Photograph: Chris O'Donovan
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and it was a busy morning on the good old |
| 0:44.1 | woman's hour on Tuesday the 20th of October 2020. Hello good morning as |
| 0:49.3 | promised yesterday on the program today we have some singing nuns we'll go live to |
| 0:54.2 | Arundol to the poor clares of Arundel who've made an album and we've got two of the |
| 0:59.0 | singing sisters on the program this morning looking forward to that We're also discussing Mumsnet if you're a regular |
| 1:05.2 | user. What do you use it for? How much joy does it give you? How much pleasure do you get from it? How much |
| 1:11.3 | information do you glean from your use of Momsnet or your |
| 1:14.9 | participation in it? And we're talking today to an academic to Sarah Pedersen, who is the author of a book |
| 1:20.8 | called The Politicization of Momsnet. Has the website changed over the years? |
| 1:26.6 | And it's done a lot of good. It's campaigned on a number of issues and people really appreciate |
| 1:31.3 | Momsnet. So we'll talk about that on the program today as well. |
| 1:34.8 | But the American presidential election hooves interview at the next debate is this week |
| 1:40.4 | it's on Thursday it's in Nashville if you look at the polls well Joe |
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