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Woman's Hour

Vanessa Feltz, Saudi Arabia, Medieval women

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Feltz has been a fixture on our TV screens and radio stations – not to mention tabloid headlines – for three decades. Now she has written a memoir, Vanessa Bares All, which charts the many ups and downs of her personal and professional life, from the Big Breakfast Bed to the Big Brother house, via Madonna and Miss Piggy.

If farming can seem to be a man’s world, then ploughing is especially male. So who are the women taking part in ploughing competitions like the one in The Archers this week? Sarah Williams, a competitive plougher, joins Anita, as does Sarah Hehir, a writer on The Archers.

A new documentary called Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia follows an undercover journalist attempting to record what life is really like in the country. The current government say they have improved the situation for women, but is this really the case? Human rights activist Lina Al-Hathloul, whose sister Loujain was imprisoned for defending women’s rights, joins Anita alongside Dr Maryam Aldossari, a Senior Lecturer at the University of London.

From 15th century birth girdles to 13th century make-up tutorials, a new exhibition at the British Library reveals what life was like for medieval women. Curator Eleanor Jackson and writer Bee Rowlatt, who both work at the Library, talk about challenging our ideas of women in the Middle Ages.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.

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I'm Siddhartha Cesset, an assistant commissioner of Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

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I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of

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podcasts on all sorts of subjects, relationships, identity, comedy, even one

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that mixes poetry, music and inner city life. So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next

0:26.1

fact checking, a feature and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its

0:31.5

audience and maybe that's you. So if you like this

0:34.6

podcast check out some others on BBC Sounds.

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BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. Hello I'm Anita Rani Sound Music Radio Podcasts.

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Podcasts.

0:44.0

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

0:48.0

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this

0:54.0

podcast. Good morning and welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour. We love

0:58.4

outspoken women here and Vanessa Feltz isn't known for holding back. In her memoir, she's as frank as you'd expect,

1:05.2

and we learn a lot, including adapting to being single in later life.

1:08.8

When Vanessa split up with her partner,

1:10.2

she went out every night, 530 nights to be precise.

1:15.0

Because she said she didn't want to be at home on the sofa.

1:17.0

We'll talk to her about that.

1:18.0

But how about you?

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Have you become single in later life?

1:21.0

How are you finding it?

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