Weekend Woman's Hour: Emily Blunt, Stammering, Long-distance friendships, Maria Callas' legacy
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Research by the charity Stamma shows that 8% of children will start stuttering at some point. Our listener Geri, a mother who’s son has a stammer, got in touch with Woman’s Hour and asked us to discuss the topic. Kirsten Howells from Stamma, Tiktok influencer Jessie Yendle and Geri join Claire McDonnell to share their own experiences and advice.
Actor Emily Blunt found fame as the scene-stealing assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, and has since starred in many films including Mary Poppins Returns and A Quiet Place with her real-life husband John Krasinski. She is also in one of this year’s biggest cinematic hits, Oppenheimer. As Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster about the father of the atomic bomb is released on ultra-HD DVD and Blu-ray, Emily Blunt talks to Clare McDonnell about her role as Kitty Oppenheimer, Robert’s wife.
How do you keep long-distance friendships going? Clare talks to filmmaker Shannon Haly, who lives in New York and wrote a viral poem about missing her best friend. They are joined by the journalist Rose Stokes who, after having an 18-year long-distance friendship decided to move to live in the same city as her friend.
What do women look for in a bra after breast cancer surgery? Clare is joined by Katy Marks, an architect by trade, who discovered after her single mastectomy that there was no bra on the market that was flat on one side. She didn’t want to use a prosthetic and so designed her own, called Uno, which launched on Monday. She’ll be joined on the programme by Asmaa Al-allak who won this year’s Great British Sewing Bee and is a consultant breast surgeon who has made post-surgery lingerie for her patients.
Today marks 100 years since the birth of one of opera’s most renowned and influential singers of the 20th century: the iconic heroine, Maria Callas. But what is it about her talent that has transcended the decades? Two sopranos – Alison Langer and Nadine Benjamin – join Anita to describe Maria Callas’ enduring star quality.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Hanna Ward Studio Manager: Tim Heffer
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| 0:48.3 | Coming up, research shows that 8% of children will start stammering at some point and we hear how it can affect everyday life. |
| 0:56.5 | So when it comes to like the canteen and I'll just go for the food which I was able to say on the spot and then he'd go back to the table and he'd be like, |
| 1:07.0 | oh, I don't really want this, but I didn't want the other kids to start and laugh in. |
| 1:13.2 | Actor Emily Blunt speaks to us about Oppenheimer, the actor strike and how her children make fun of |
| 1:18.7 | her accent and architect Katie Marks tells us why she designed her own bra after having a single mastectomy. |
| 1:26.0 | I was determined to rethink how asymmetry was sort of perceived by people. |
| 1:31.0 | Because I just thought to my side you know there must be |
| 1:33.5 | thousands of women who look like me and yet I've never walked down the road and |
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