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Woman's Hour

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Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dany Cotton the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade talks about how she dealt with trauma in her years as a firefighter. Dr John Green Chief Psychologist for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Gill Scott-Moore CEO of Police Care UK discuss how best to help first responders with their mental health. We discuss the power of grime music to politically engage young people with the campaigner Amika George, Dr Joy White who has a Phd in Grime and the author and performer Debris Stevenson. The Great British Bake off winner from 2015 Nadiya Hussain talks to us about how her pets help her relax. Dr Katherine Garzonis a psychologist, the author of gardening books Hollie Newton and the food writer Bea Wilson tell us how they switch off. Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell tells us why we all need to find someone like us in literature and why more diversity is needed in books - especially for children. We also hear from Aimee Felone a publisher and the author Patrice Lawrence. Harriet Wistrich, the lawyer and founder of the Centre for Justice for Women tells us about growing up and losing her disabled brother Matthew. We also hear from the Playwright Atiha Sen Gupta who’s disabled brother Nihal died when he was 17 year old and she was just thirteen. Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane Thurlow Interviewed guest: Dany Cotton Interviewed guest: John Green Interviewed guest: Gill Scott-Moore Interviewed guest: Amika George Interviewed guest: Joy White Interviewed guest: Debris Stevenson Interviewed guest: Nadiya Hussain Interviewed guest: Katherine Garzonis Interviewed guest: Hollie Newton Interviewed guest: Bea Wilson Interviewed guest: Cressida Cowell Interviewed guest: Aimee Felone Interviewed guest: Patrice Lawrence Interviewed guest: Harriet Wistrich Interviewed guest: Atiha Sen Gupta

Transcript

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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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