Weddings online. Expert Women Project and Covid. Author Tishani Doshi
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The breakout of COVID-19 has put many aspects of life on hold – including the Big Day. Emily McMahon and her partner Jack Walsh tell us about their online wedding with friends and family over video call.
The Expert Women Project has been recording and reporting the appearance of women authority figures appearing on news programmes for the last five years. Since this project began the number of women experts on these programmes has risen by at least 40%. Emeritus Professor Lis Howell directs the project and the former cabinet minister Baroness Morgan of Cotes, one of its supporters, join Jane to discuss the latest batch of results tracking the appearance of women on flagship news programming during the Covid 19 pandemic.
Tishani Doshi is an Indian poet, writer, and dancer. Her latest novel, Small Days and Nights tells the story of Grace who returns to India from the USA to cremate her mother, only to find out she has an unexpected inheritance, a house on the beach and a sister with down’s syndrome.
How does it feel to be bereaved and living alone during coronavirus? In today’s Woman’s Hour Corona Diaries, Elaine Chambers from Brighton talks about how being forced to give up social activities has affected the process of grief - and how she’s trying to cope with the emotional exhaustion of daily life.
And the programme everyone's talking about the adapation of Sally Rooney's "Normal People" Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; Professor Lis Howell Guest; Baroness Morgan of Cote Guest; Tishani Doshi Guest; Elaine Chambers Guest ; Emily McMahon Guest; Jack Walsh Guest; Maria Fleming Guest; Elizabeth Day
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| 0:34.4 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Hour podcast. |
| 0:37.6 | It is Monday the 4th of May 2020. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello, good morning, it's Monday morning. Women's Hour's |
| 0:43.4 | back live and you're welcome to take part at BBC |
| 0:46.2 | Women's Hour on Twitter. I hope you had a reasonable weekend. I |
| 0:49.7 | changed a hooper bag and it's a measure of just how dull the weekend was that I think that's worthy of mention. a We'll talk to a bride who married on Zoom and we'll also discuss in some detail |
| 1:05.1 | normal people which has been a real talking point. There have been newspaper |
| 1:09.3 | columns and editorials dedicated to it. It's seemingly the drama show of the moment |
| 1:14.8 | that everyone is watching. What do you think of it? Has it helped you open up a |
| 1:18.9 | conversation perhaps particularly about |
| 1:23.2 | that and we'll have another coronavirus diary. |
| 1:26.4 | Today you can hear from Elaine in Brighton who was bereaved in 2017 |
| 1:31.8 | and was about really starting her recovery and things were getting better for her |
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