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Woman's Hour

The Whyte Review into British Gymnastics, Women’s Health Ambassador, the Future of Cars

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Following a two year investigation into bullying, abuse and discrimination the Whyte Review into British Gymnastics is finally published. We hear from ex-gymnast Claire Heafford, co-founder and campaign director of Gymnasts 4 Change, and Sarah Moore, lawyer and partner at Hausfeld who are acting on behalf of 38 former elite gymnasts against British Gymnastics in relation to allegations of abuse. It’s has just been announced that Professor Dame Lesley Regan has been appointed as the first ever Women’s Health Ambassador for England. She’ll support the implementation of the upcoming Government led women’s health strategy, which aims to close the gender health gap and ensure services meet the needs of women throughout their life. We hear from her about what she hopes to achieve in this new role. This summer marks two years since the start of Covid-19. We hear from psychologist Ciara Dockery at Gurls Talk, the community-led non-profit organisation, about why they are encouraging young women and girls to write a letter to their pre-pandemic selves. What is the future of cars? Linda Zhang is the Chief Engineer of the Ford F-150 Lightning pick-up truck, the newly-electrified version of the USA’s most popular vehicle. She is in the UK to take part in the BBC World Service’s Future of Cars event staged at the Science Museum with the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. She tells us why bringing out an electric version of this monster vehicle is so important and why young people and women want to drive it. A house in Hackney, which in the early 20th century sheltered hundreds of stranded and abandoned South and East Asian Nannies – known as Ayah’s, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Historian Dr Rebecca Preston tells us who these women were and their importance to British and international history. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.8

Good morning, welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour.

0:14.0

Now, I want you all to take a second and have a think.

0:17.6

It's pretty hot, isn't it?

0:18.6

So just have a breather and think about this.

0:22.4

Knowing what you know now about the world and yourself,

0:26.2

what advice would you give to your pre-pandemic self?

0:31.0

What would you tell yourself about what you've learned or how you've changed?

0:35.4

It's something the nonprofit organisation, Girls Talk,

0:38.2

have been encouraging their community to do as a way of processing the impact of the pandemic

0:43.8

and the effect it's had on our mental health.

0:46.8

We've lived through a trauma and it's affected as all in various ways,

0:50.0

both individually and collectively.

0:51.8

So I want you to have a think about that this morning.

0:54.4

Cara has written something about being disabled and vulnerable in the pandemic

0:59.2

and she says,

1:00.6

I will be so proud of you in the end because you'll experience so many fluctuating emotions throughout this time.

1:07.0

You'll learn that happiness, like sadness or anger is just a feeling, not a destination.

1:13.2

You'll learn through everything to be gentle with yourself.

1:16.0

Some days you'll feel heavy, heavy again,

1:18.8

but the next day you'll get out of it again.

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