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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Felicity Finch. You may know me as Ruth in the Archers. I have something important to |
0:06.0 | ask you before you listen to your podcast. This Christmas, thousands of people across the UK will be |
0:12.6 | without a safe place to call home, but you can help change that. A gift to the Radio 4 Christmas |
0:19.6 | Appeal with Saint Martin in the Fields can help people find a home by providing a much needed |
0:25.5 | deposit or paying for rent in advance. Everything starts with home and this Christmas home starts with you. |
0:34.8 | Please support the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal by donating online on the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal |
0:39.8 | website. When times are so difficult for so many, thank you for helping people to restart their |
0:46.2 | lives with a home. Now enjoy your podcast. Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's |
0:58.5 | R from BBC Radio 4. Good morning and welcome to the programme. Today we hear the retelling of a story |
1:05.3 | you may remember, the so-called Silent Twins from Wales, whose unique and haunting experiences |
1:11.5 | have been made into a new film. Ever heard the one about so-called Mummy Brain? Well, apart from being |
1:17.7 | a terrible name, it turns out it's pretty terribly understood. We'll be separating scientific fact |
1:22.9 | from fiction. But we're going to start today's programme with the reaction of a woman who's been |
1:28.0 | nicknamed the Queen of the Nimbys to Rishi Soonux, having to row back on his enforced house building |
1:34.8 | targets after a conservative rebellion raised its head. The new Prime Minister's reversal is music |
1:40.4 | to the ears of Rosie Pearson, who's the head and co-founder of the Community Planning Alliance, |
1:45.6 | a group of around 600 grassroots community planning groups that have come together to lobby |
1:50.0 | the government for change when it comes to local planning. Rosie, a stay at home mother, |
1:55.2 | says she was radicalised and that's the word she uses, into standing up for her local area and |
2:00.4 | blocking certain developers from home building after going to one-terse meeting of her local |
2:06.5 | counsellors. Many women are involved in this space, she works with a lot of them. But Rosie also |
2:13.0 | notes how rude and aggressive it can be in the planning world. And I wonder, have you dipped your |
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