4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's R from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.7 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:13.0 | Today I would really welcome your tales of boosting morale. |
0:17.0 | How have you done it? |
0:18.0 | What have been the tools, the techniques, the moments that come to mind |
0:20.7 | when I ask that question? |
0:22.1 | I'm inspired to ask it because two British women, |
0:25.0 | with no previous rowing experience, |
0:27.4 | have smashed the world record for the fastest female pair |
0:30.9 | to row 3,000 miles that it is across the Atlantic. |
0:35.1 | And we have them on the programme today. |
0:36.4 | 29-year-old Jessica Oliver, 30-year-old Charlotte Harris, |
0:39.8 | Fort Sleep deprivation, huge waves, hallucinations, blisters, |
0:44.5 | heat, capsizing, all of that together, |
0:47.9 | and then resorted to shouting made up stories to each other. |
0:51.0 | At one point I believe about scullery maids in the 1800s. |
0:54.9 | I kid you not. |
0:55.9 | They are great friends, while they were when they started. |
0:58.0 | We'll find out how they are now. |
0:59.5 | They met at Cardiff University 10 years ago. |
1:01.9 | And after working their way through all of their music playlists, |
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