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Woman's Hour

Victoria Wood, Frozen eggs, How to raise a kind child

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Wood, the Lancashire born comedian, writer, actor, stand up and singer found fame with shows such as Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Wood & Walters and Dinner Ladies. She died in 2016 having never written her own story. With access to letters, and interviews with friends and family Jasper Rees has written ‘Let’s Do it’ – The Authorized Biography of Victoria Wood. Mairead Campbell works at BBC Radio 1 and turned 30 last year. She made a documentary for BBC Radio Ulster about the fact that friends and family suddenly started asking when she’s going to settle down and how that made her feel. Recently fertility clinics across the UK claimed they have seen a surge in inquiries about egg freezing. Professor of Reproductive Biology, Mary Herbert, joins Jane to discuss what may have prompted that rise. How do you raise a kind and empathetic child with a social conscience? We speak to Uju Asika, author of Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World; and Miranda McKearney, founder of the Empathy Lab, a not-for-profit dedicated to teaching children empathy through fiction. Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.7

This is Jane Garvey.

0:05.7

Welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:07.9

It's Monday.

0:08.9

It's the 19th of October and we're still in 2020.

0:11.9

Hi there.

0:12.9

Good morning.

0:13.9

We're going to talk to Victoria Woods' biographer on the program this morning, really

0:17.3

looking forward to that.

0:18.3

We'll talk to you about turning 30, how it makes you feel, and ask whether it's true

0:23.6

that there really has been an increase in inquiries about freezing your eggs.

0:29.3

So at the end of the program today, how to raise a kind child, I suppose we'd all like

0:34.6

to think that our offspring, if we have them, are indeed kind, but you can probably make

0:39.0

it easier for them to be kind.

0:40.8

We'll discuss that later in the program this morning.

0:43.6

As ever on social media, you can reach us at BBC Women's Hour or you can email the program

0:48.5

via our website.

0:50.5

Now I know many of you, like me, are massive fans, continuing fans of the incredible talent

0:57.0

of Victoria Woods, who died back in 2016.

1:01.3

I've got just my favourite, my favourite quote I think is from her unforgettable character,

1:06.0

Kitty.

1:07.0

And here Kitty goes.

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