Small Island, Esther Wojcicki, Natalie Haynes
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to Thursday's edition of the Woman's Our Podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | It's a programme for parents called Henry, and has resulted in leads becoming the first |
| 0:16.6 | UK city to report a significant drop in childhood obesity. |
| 0:21.5 | How was it done? |
| 0:24.0 | Small Island is the novel by the late Andrea Levy, which described the experience of the |
| 0:28.4 | Windrush generation as they arrived in Britain. |
| 0:31.7 | It's now a play at the National Theatre, and I'll be talking to the two young women |
| 0:36.2 | playing Hortense and Queenie. |
| 0:39.0 | And a thousand ships, Natalie Haynes tells the story of the Trojan War |
| 0:43.4 | from the perspective of the women involved. |
| 0:47.8 | Now Esther Wojcicki is a teacher and a parent, she has three daughters. |
| 0:53.7 | One is the chief executive of YouTube, another is one of the founders |
| 0:58.0 | of the genetic testing company 23 and me, she's also its chief executive. |
| 1:03.5 | Her third daughter is a full-right scholar and professor of pediatrics, so |
| 1:09.1 | it's not surprising that their mother has written a book called How to Raise Successful People. |
| 1:15.9 | But what does she mean by success? |
| 1:18.8 | Success is feeling a sense of peace and happiness with what you're doing in the world. |
| 1:27.5 | So you have good relationships, you have a place to live, |
| 1:34.3 | food to eat, clothing that is necessary, not necessarily designer clothing, but good clothing. |
| 1:43.7 | But it's a sense of peace that you feel on a regular basis, at least 51% of the time. |
| 1:53.8 | But how do you measure it? I mean your daughters are phenomenally successful |
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