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Woman's Hour

The power of crying, Hubble astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, Children and Coronavirus

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The power of crying - Keith Brymer-Jones, one of the judges on the Great Pottery Throw Down, the psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Susie Orbach, and voice coach Joanna Cross discuss.

Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, was an astronaut in the team that launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990.

After mastectomies the aim is to make breasts look and feel as they did before but sensitivity tends to suffer. Sarafina Nance is leading a campaign to increase understanding of sensitivity and talks about an experimental nerve-preserving procedure she received in the USA last year. We also hear from the breast surgeon Dr Ayesha Khan on treatments available in the UK.

Composer Emily Hall on the inspiration behind her piece for the Seven Ages of Women, a new commission by Radio 3 to mark International Women’s Day.

Coronavirus – how do you reassure children when everyone is talking about it, and how can they best protect themselves? We hear from Professor Trudie Lang, Director of the Global Health Network at the University of Oxford and Emma Citron, consultant clinical psychologist.

Vogue Williams, TV presenter and Instagram influencer on the rise of parent shaming.

Celebrating 10 years of the Women of the World Festival - two young activists Eunice Mwende and Dajanaa 'Dexi' Stosic on working to empower young girls and women in Kenya and Serbia.

Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.7

Good afternoon.

0:05.7

In today's weekend,

0:06.7

women are the 10th anniversary of Women of the World,

0:09.9

the Wow Festival.

0:12.0

And tomorrow, it's International Women's Day.

0:14.5

Emily Hall is one of the seven composers commissioned

0:17.9

by Radio 3 to make the Seven Ages of Woman.

0:22.3

Coronavirus, how do you reassure your children

0:25.3

when everyone is talking about it?

0:27.8

And how can they best protect themselves?

0:30.9

And crying, why do we do it in public?

0:34.7

Keith Brimer Jones is a judge on the great pottery throwdown,

0:39.2

and does it a lot?

0:40.5

I remember the first time I got tearful

0:43.3

was the first five minutes of the first series

0:45.4

of the first episode.

0:46.4

The director could hear her in the background going,

0:48.4

my God, the judge is crying.

0:50.3

This is brilliant.

0:52.2

The TV presenter and Instagram influencer Vogue Williams

0:56.0

asks, why it's so often another parent

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