Toxic Masculinity, Women & running, Judith Gough UK Ambassador to Sweden
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Drag queen, Courtney Act - real name Shane Jenek, Jordan Stephens from the hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, and the Chief Executive of the ‘Men and Boys Coalition’, Dan Bell discuss what the term Toxic Masculinity means to them and how it makes them feel.
Why are more women choosing running over other sports when it comes to staying fit? Dame Kelly Holmes talks about the influence of athletes like Dina Asher-Smith, Rachel Baker tells us how running helped her lose weight and Jens Jakob Andersen has researched data with the International Association of Athletics Federations.
The international bestselling novelist Johana Gustawsson’s latest book ‘Blood Song’ draws on her own experiences of IVF and her struggle to conceive. Johana and her husband Mattias tell us about finding out about his infertility and their need for a sperm donor.
Judith Gough the now UK Ambassador to Sweden tells us about her job and her four year position in the Ukraine.
Chrisann Jerrett and Dami Makinde discuss their charity We Belong. They set it up to help young people who came to the UK as children, start the process for legal status.
We hear about the impact of so called ‘Superfans’ on female music journalists. Wanna Thompson tells us how a tweet she sent about Nicki Minaj went viral and Hannah Ewens a journalist from Vice discusses what motivates ‘superfans’.
The author Jojo Moyes talks about new novel ‘The Giver of Stars’ based on the true story of the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of Women's Hour, our highlights of |
| 0:09.6 | the week. |
| 0:10.6 | And this week we'll discuss the impact of the expression toxic masculinity on men and |
| 0:16.4 | we look at women and the appeal of running. |
| 0:19.1 | Why are many more of us now choosing it as our sport of choice? |
| 0:22.8 | I was walking around the park with my little boys one day and my little one suddenly |
| 0:26.1 | learnt white is bike and I had to run after him and I was like, oh, I can do this and |
| 0:30.8 | I weighed 20 stone at that time so I then went home, downloaded a couch to 5k app and started |
| 0:37.0 | running. |
| 0:38.0 | There were many Sunday mornings where if you were in that park you probably would have seen |
| 0:40.3 | 20 stone me running around crying at some points. |
| 0:43.5 | Really impressive story that and you can hear it on this edition of the programme also |
| 0:47.4 | at two young women who came to this country at the age of just eight. |
| 0:51.2 | Tell us why their legal status stopped them from going to university. |
| 0:55.5 | Jo Jo Moys discusses her new novel based on the true story of the horseback librarians |
| 1:00.8 | of Kentucky and Judith Goff are women in Stockholm on what it's like to be an ambassador. |
| 1:07.5 | The idea that you stand around with a pink gin in your hand and eating certain chocolates |
| 1:11.3 | that we shall name I think is not accurate. |
| 1:14.5 | A lot of these receptions and dinners you can sort out some serious stuff at them and |
| 1:19.6 | you can bring people together that might not otherwise talk. |
| 1:23.5 | The life of a British ambassador explored on weekend woman's hour. |
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