TV presenter Julia Bradbury, Dame Margaret Beckett, Aunties, Porn in Parliament, BMX champion Bethany Shriever, Jude Rogers

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The TV presenter Julia Bradbury on her TV documentary and life after her breast cancer diagnosis. The longest serving MP, Dame Margaret Beckett on standing down as an MP in the next election. The "aunties" - the older women in the community who we should respect but for some may be judgemental as well as motherly. Podcaster and writer Tolly Shoneye and Anchal Seda discuss. The Attorney General and cabinet member Suella Braverman on the allegations that an unidentified Conservative MP has been accused of watching porn in the House of Commons. BMX Olympic and world champion Bethany Shriever on being named Action Sportsperson of the Year at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards. Music journalist Jude Rogers on her new book The Sound of Being Human, part memoir, part exploration of how music is interwoven into our lives from before birth to beyond the grave. Presenter:: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.2	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour in a moment, Dame Margaret Beckett, the longest
0:15.2	serving female MP. The TV presenter Julia Bradbury on Life After Breast Cancer Diagnosis
0:21.4	and the role of the auntie.
0:23.0	A lot of the aunties are so like auntie me that they married and where is your husband?
0:27.7	You also do not have a husband. Why are you just to me about having a husband? Where's
0:32.3	auntie? Where is auntie?
0:34.7	Where is auntie? We'll find him in the next hour and we'll discuss the role music plays in
0:41.2	a voking memories.
0:42.9	But first, Dame Margaret Beckett, the longest serving female MP recently announced her intention
0:48.5	to stand down at the next election. She was the first woman to serve as Foreign Secretary
0:53.7	and also the first woman to be elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and briefly served
0:58.8	as Party Leader after the sudden death of John Smith. Under new Labour, she served as
1:03.5	Trade and Industry Secretary Leader of the House of Commons and also as Secretary of State
1:08.7	for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and is presently chair of the Joint Committee
1:12.8	scrutinising the National Security Strategy. Emma began by asking her what she thought of
1:17.9	the male and Sunday article that accused Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rainer of crossing
1:22.4	her legs in the commons to distract the PM.
1:26.2	I'm afraid there's always been this little tendency in the Conservative Party that they've
1:29.9	got kind of public school boys who really haven't grown out of it and every now and then
1:35.2	their surface.
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