Weekend Woman's Hour: Gemma Chan, Lyra McKee's sister, Endometriosis, 15-minute home care visits

Woman's Hour

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4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The journalist and writer, Lyra McKee was shot dead in Londonderry nearly four months ago. She had been watching rioting in the Creggan area of the city. Her book Angels With Blue Faces, written before her death has just been published. We hear from her sister Nichola Corner. Careworker Caroline inspired this week’s drama serial Flying Visits. Frustrated by the requirement to keep her home visits to fifteen minutes, she made an impassioned speech to councillors in Southwark, London which led them to change their policy. Caroline, Ian Hudspeth from the Local Government Association and Donna Rowe-Merriman from UNISON discuss the challenges associated with home care visits. The singer Angelique Kidjo has three Grammy awards and has been described as the undisputed queen of African music. Her latest album Celia is a tribute to the Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz. She sings for us in the studio. Endometriosis is a serious and lifelong disease which affects as many as 1 in 10 women. But it often goes undiagnosed. Karen Havelin has turned her experience of the disease into a novel, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully. And Eleanor Thom has written a manual aimed at her fellow sufferers, as well as their friends and family, Private Parts: How to Really Live with Endometriosis. Actor Gemma Chan talks about her role in the Channel 4 drama I Am Hannah - a woman in her mid-thirties struggling with the pressure to settle down and start a family. 200 years ago a prison was opened in Brixton in South London. It was the first to house only women and Emma Barton was its governor. We hear from Chris Impey, author of a history of HMP Brixton and from the current Deputy Governor Louise Ysart. The food writer MiMi Aye’s new book Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen is a celebration of Burmese food, history and culture. She Cooks the Perfect… Red Prawn Curry. Presented by Jenni Murray Produced by Dianne McGregor Edited by Jane Thurlow Interviewed guest: Nichola Corner Interviewed guest: Ian Hudspeth Interviewed guest: Donna Rowe-Merriman Interviewed guest: Angelique Kidjo Interviewed guest: Karen Havelin Interviewed guest: Eleanor Thom Interviewed guest: Gemma Chan Interviewed guest: Chris Impey Interviewed guest: Louise Ysart Interviewed guest: MiMi Aye

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.3	Good afternoon. In Weekend Woman's Hour today, the care worker Caroline, the inspiration
0:11.0	for this week's serial flying visit. She spoke to her council about the failure of the
0:16.6	system.
0:17.6	I said to him, you know, how long does it take you to get ready in the morning? Because
0:22.1	if you can do it in 15 minutes or less, can you come and work with me?
0:27.5	How successful was her appeal?
0:30.9	Endometriosis, a disease thought to affect around one in ten women. Why is it so often
0:37.1	misdiagnosed and how do you learn to live with it?
0:41.2	Gemma Chan will appear on Tuesday in Channel 4's I Am Hannah. But her really big moment
0:47.8	was the premiere of Crazy Rich Asians with her family.
0:52.3	All of us were in tears and my mum kind of gripping my hand. And she said that she hadn't
0:57.4	expected ever to see faces that look like our families or the food that we grew up eating
1:02.6	or, you know, songs that she hadn't heard since her childhood. Being in a, in a mainstream
1:07.0	Hollywood film, so it was a very cathartic experience for all of us.
1:10.9	Ashley Keejo has been dubbed the Undisputed Queen of African Music. She sings at the
1:17.3	Prongs and in the Women's Hour studio. Nearly four months ago, a young journalist and
1:23.4	writer, Lyra McKee, was shot dead in London, dairy. She'd been observing, writing in the
1:29.4	Kregan area of the city. She'd just completed a book called Angels with Blue Faces in which
1:35.5	she'd investigated the murders. In 1981, have an MP, Robert Bradford and a young man called
1:42.2	Ken Campbell. She also looked into rumors of the abuse of boys at a home called Kinkora.
1:49.4	She didn't see her work published, but yesterday, it was launched officially in Belfast
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