Weekend Woman's Hour - Camila Batmanghelidjh, Surrogacy, Women in Jazz

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In her first in-depth broadcast interview since winning the High Court disqualification case regarding the disbanded children's charity Kids Company, its founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, explains why she fought so long and hard to be cleared.

David Watkins is one of the first single men in the UK to have a surrogate baby after a law change in January 2019. David talks about becoming a father to baby Miles in July 2020. Faye Spreadbury, a married mother of two, explains what it was like to take on the role of surrogate.

How important is empathy in leadership? Chef Angela Hartnett, and Belinda Parmar, CEO of the Empathy Business, discuss empathy and how business leaders can use it as a tool to manage staff emotions in the workplace.

Charlotte Sibtain talks about her collection of more than 400 vintage wedding photos from charity shops, markets and the internet and her quest to track their owners.

Novelist Julie Ma talks about her first book Happy Families which is centred around a Chinese takeaway, the Yau Sum in West Wales, and closely resembles the one she grew up in and now runs with her brother.

BBC correspondent Mariko Oi explains Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) announcement that women will be invited to its all-male meetings: as long as they don't speak.

Are women in the UK jazz scene facing discrimination and sexual harassment? Sarah Raine, an academic and anthropologist and Jas Kayser, who's a jazz drummer and musician, discuss gender equality in the music industry.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Siobhann Tighe

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour.
0:40.0	Oh, we've quite a show for you today. Stand out moments from the week just gone.
0:44.2	But if you'd like to catch up with every program,
0:46.8	you are more than welcome to listen to our podcast on BBC Sounds,
0:50.7	like all the others.
0:51.8	Come on, join the gang. It's a jazz thing today. Academic
0:56.4	and anthropologist Sarah Rain and jazz drummer Jazz Kaza discuss what it's
1:01.0	like to be a female jazz drummer in a scene that's male
1:03.9	dominated. David Watkins talks about being one of the first single men in the
1:08.8	UK to have a surrogate baby. Faye Spreadbury is a married mother of two. She joins him to describe what it was like to take on the role of
1:16.8	surrogates. And we hear from Chef Angela Hartnett and Belinda Palmer, CEO of the Empathy Business, on the importance of empathy in the workplace.
1:26.0	Empathy is not a luxury. We have a mental health pandemic going on.
1:31.0	You know, you've got to manage people's emotions people feel incredibly
1:34.7	disconnected at work we're seeing fear and anxiety with younger people who are
1:38.9	living on their own working on calls all day on their own.
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