Weekend Woman's Hour: BBC 100, Auntie Beeb with Mel Giedroyc, Incels, Women in Space

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Monday marked 100 years since the BBC began broadcasting on radio. To celebrate that centenary, we commissioned a poem by Kim Moore and created a soundscape to show how much women’s lives, and the noises that surround them, have changed - using BBC archive from the 1920s right through to the present day. Why did the BBC get its nickname ‘Auntie’? And what kind of aunt would she be? We discuss with television presenter and comedian Mel Giedroyc and historian of the BBC, Professor Jean Seaton. ‘The Secret World of Incels’ is a Channel 4 documentary that gives a window into the lives of Incels and explores what makes them engage with these misogynist online forums that have led to some horrific acts of violence. We discuss with its presenter Ben Zand and Dr Kaitlyn Regehr. The Internet Watch Foundation has been tracking the increasing trend of perpetrators grooming children online and coercing them into sexually abusing themselves on camera. The foundation has recognised a lot of what they are seeing as Category A, the most severe kind of sexual abuse, due to it including penetration with an object. A snapshot study out yesterday looks into the objects being used, and how they are everyday domestic items that can be found in the household. We hear from Susie Hargreaves, CEO of the IWF, and Vicki Green, CEO of the Marie Collins Foundation. The story contains content that some listeners may find distressing. What does the Artemis moon mission mean for women? We speak to Llbby Jackson from the UK Space Agency. The Big Swing is the world’s first double female-fronted big band. It is led by jazz musicians Georgina Jackson and Emma Smith who aim to elevate female visibility in the big band world. They join us in the studio for a special performance.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, where we bring you the best bits from the past week.
0:05.4	Coming up, what is an Insel 2.0? We find out how the Insel movement has evolved and potentially
0:12.1	become more dangerous. If Insel 1.0, if we can call it that, was about isolation and loneliness,
0:19.6	Insel 2.0 is about banding together around the language of Insel and finding empowerment through
0:26.4	that language. We enjoy some music from the world's first double female fronted big band and we
0:32.4	ask the head of space exploration at the UK Space Agency when we might see a woman on the moon.
0:38.8	But first, we start with a very special audio treat. Monday marked 100 years since the BBC began
0:46.5	daily live broadcasts on radio. To mark that centenary, we commissioned a poem by Kim Moore and
0:52.8	created a soundscape to show how much women's lives and the noises that surround them have changed
0:59.2	using BBC archive from the 1930s right through to present day. To take you back to 1922,
1:07.1	it had been four years since the suffragettes had successfully campaigned for women to get the
1:11.3	right to vote, provided they were over 30, composer Ethel Smythe wrote a march for the women in
1:18.3	honour of those suffragettes and that's where our soundscape begins. Do you remember when we
1:32.8	still had Ethel Smythe's march of the women echoing through our lives?
1:37.8	When we worked in factories, well I started when I was 12 after I was married and I started
1:50.8	on half two daughters and my room was wounded in the wound, it couldn't work anymore,
1:54.3	it doesn't get a punch with two daughters to bring up, well I had to go back into them again.
1:58.0	Some of the rooms are dark and hot, some are definitely noisy and some are quiet and light and
2:03.5	airy. One of the lightest and brightest must be the burning and mending room, over 200 girls and
2:09.2	women sitting sewing at large discs. The room is so quiet that the girls very often sing at their work,
2:14.9	it can probably hear them laugh. Worked then slept, then slept to rise and work again.
2:22.1	That's all that is for me, work each and sleep. What else is there? If you don't work, you don't eat.
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