Takeover 2019 - Dany Cotton, Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dany Cotton says, 'I was thrilled to take part in this year’s Takeover and talk about topics I’m passionate about - I have managed to include something tasty, something fluffy and something serious! I will be explaining to the listeners the benefits of therapy dogs and why I will be getting one for London Fire Brigade. I also wanted to talk about an issue I have seen throughout my 32 year career – mental health and how it can affect first responders. I love cooking and I’m sure I was a mouse in a previous life, so I will also be talking about the looming Halloumi shortage.'
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| 0:41.0 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Hour Podcasts from Friday the 26th of July 2019. |
| 0:46.7 | It's day five of The Women's Hour Takeover. |
| 0:49.2 | We've had some fabulous guest editors during the course of the week. |
| 0:52.4 | Nadi Hussein on Monday, the campaigning lawyer, Harriet Wistrich on Tuesday, Amica George, the teenage |
| 0:58.2 | campaigner on Wednesday. |
| 1:00.0 | Yesterday it was the turn of Cressida Cow Cowle, the new Children's Laureate. |
| 1:03.7 | All those programs, if you missed any of them, are available in podcast form via BBC Sounds. |
| 1:09.5 | So there's additional content provided for you every day. Today it's the turn of the Commissioner of the |
| 1:14.6 | London Fire Brigade Danny Cotton, the first woman of course to get that job. I |
| 1:18.6 | asked her what things were like when she joined the fire service back in 1988. |
| 1:24.0 | So in London there were 30 women out of 9,000 firefighters in London, so very few and far between. |
| 1:29.8 | And the welcome to you, was it warm? |
| 1:32.1 | Mixed, some people definitely |
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