The best of Takeover week
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, good afternoon, and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. This week, it's about our takeover |
| 0:10.9 | 2019. Five very different guest editors of Woman's Hour chose our content this week. |
| 0:17.3 | They were Nadia Hussein, the Bake Off winner of course and TV cook, the lawyer and the founder |
| 0:22.6 | of the Centre for Women's Justice, Harriet Wistrich, Amica George, the teenager who started |
| 0:27.9 | the campaign with the hashtag Free Periods, the Commissioner of the London Fabricate, |
| 0:33.0 | Danny Cotton and the Children's Laureate, Cressida Cal, whose guests included the author Patrice |
| 0:39.0 | Lawrence, who told us who her book heroes were when she was a child. |
| 0:43.5 | I loved Heidi because she was living with her granddad and I lived the first four years |
| 0:46.8 | in the foster families and a different type of family and then I loved Moll from Wendona |
| 0:51.5 | Willows because he was deeply short-sighted like me and a home that wasn't like others |
| 0:57.0 | and liked his food. And we talked to this week about grime and young people and politics, |
| 1:02.8 | something that Amica George wanted to talk about and here, the author Debris Stevenson, |
| 1:08.0 | praises the influence of Stormzi. |
| 1:10.2 | What Stormzi has done for me has just been needed for so long. I think there's such an |
| 1:16.2 | obvious intersection with the media wanting to reduce anything that feels black British |
| 1:23.0 | and I think his bluntness, his honesty, his use of his position and power has really |
| 1:28.3 | said there are so many other stories in relation to this music. |
| 1:32.3 | That's the view of Debris Stevenson, more from her and from our guest chosen by our guest |
| 1:37.1 | editors this week during the course of this edition of Weekend Woman's Hour. |
| 1:41.9 | Let's start then with our guest editor yesterday, Danny Cotton, the Commissioner of the London |
| 1:46.6 | Fabricate and the first woman of course, to hold that position. She wanted us to talk |
| 1:51.4 | about supporting the mental health of first responders. Danny joined the fire service |
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