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Woman's Hour

The women at the centre of the new drama 'It's a Sin'. Plus a look at the gendered economic impact of covid.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

'It’s a Sin', the new drama on Channel 4 by Russel T Davies tells the story of a group of young gay men living in London during the Aids crisis of the 1980s and 90s.

At the centre of their lives is their friend Jill Baxter, who offers unconditional love and support. We meet the woman who inspired the character, Davies' long-time friend Jill Nalder, the actor who plays her on screen Lydia West and Lisa Power an LGBT rights campaigner and co-founder of Stonewall.

A new report from the Women and Equalities Committee looks at the gendered economic impact of Covid 19 - we're joined by its Chair Caroline Noakes MP.

Plus Pauline Bridge, who at 82 has been called Britain’s oldest paper "girl". And we hear from Kirsty Mead a Topshop worker, and a lifestyle fashion blogger whose video on TikTok of her packing up one of the shops in Leeds that's never going to open again, has gone viral.

Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

0:06.8

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Fladiated.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts.

0:34.7

Hello, it's Emma Barnet here.

0:36.3

Welcome to the Woman's Our podcast.

0:39.6

Good morning.

0:40.4

Getting up at 5 a.m.

0:41.6

for a newspaper round is bad enough, especially in this weather.

0:45.0

But arguably, it's all the more impressive if you're 82.

0:48.0

Pauline Bridge has been described as potentially

0:51.0

Britain's oldest paper girl or paper woman, if you prefer if she prefers. as grandchildren and at 82 she says she is not going to stop delivering her local paper.

1:05.2

Do you have an unusual job or do an unexpected activity that perhaps raises some eyebrows?

1:11.7

Tell us what it is. Tell us why you do it, tell us how you got into it,

1:16.5

and what it gives to you, what it gives to your life. We'll hear from Pauline shortly,

1:20.6

but we'd like to hear your tales too, to perhaps make us think a bit

1:23.8

differently about the world this morning and share some of your stories.

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