Weekend Woman’s Hour: Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny discuss their new novel, the Singer Ella Eyre & the Science of Knitting
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The former presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new book out, “State of Terror”, a political thriller written with the award winning author Louise Penny. The two women were already friends before deciding to pen the novel which features a President who “smells of meat” and appears to resemble Donald Trump and a British Prime Minister who’s “a twit” and seems to have a more than a passing resemblance to Boris Johnson.
According to a new survey on mental wellbeing in agriculture, 58% of women in farming experience anxiety compared to 44% of men. What's the reason behind it? How much impact has Brexit and the pandemic had on the problem? We discuss with Alicia Chivers, Chief Executive of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, and East Yorkshire pig farmer Kate Moore.
Campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is raising awareness of asthma and the health problems that can be caused by air pollution. Last year her daughter, Ella, became the first person in Britain to have air pollution listed as the cause of death after an inquest. She died in 2013 aged nine. Now Rosamund is calling on Boris Johnson to “set an example for the whole world” with ambitious clear air goals.
Are you a keen knitter? Have you ever considered that patterns for knitting your jumpers, hats or gloves could be seen as having parallels to computer coding? Do we undervalue the scientific aspects of some female-dominated skills? Emma speaks to Shetland knitter and pattern writer Hazel Tindall - aka World's Fastest Knitter - and to Sue Montgomery, who went viral in 2019 for knitting data into a shawl.
After undergoing vocal cord surgery, MOBO and Brit award-winning singer songwriter Ella Eyre is back on her first headline tour in six years. She reveals how she's had to learn how to sing again - and how the experience has inspired a new musical direction.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from podcasts. We'll hear from Hillary Rodham Clinton. How's that for a name drop? The former presidential |
| 0:55.0 | candidate, Secretary of State and First Lady of the United States and the award-winning |
| 1:00.0 | author Louise Penny. And we'll discuss the ongoing issues faced by women working in farming. |
| 1:05.8 | The average farming person is feeling stressed by at least six factors, one of which about |
| 1:11.1 | 30% of our respondents included not feeling valued by the public around them. |
| 1:17.0 | Everybody can play a really important part here of ensuring that you make the farming people around you feel valued. |
| 1:23.3 | We'll also hear from the environmental campaigner Rosamund Adukisor Deborah |
| 1:27.6 | and why knitting the hobby of so many women is often undervalued. |
| 1:32.1 | I got a lot of criticism for knitting in council. It |
| 1:37.2 | actually helps me focus when I'm knitting. I can actually pay attention to hours and |
| 1:42.4 | hours and hours of debate in counsel and I'm probably the only one out of all 65 |
| 1:47.6 | counselors who could tell you what's being discussed. |
| 1:50.4 | Now on Friday I was joined in the studio by two exceptional women. You could say they've broken a few boundaries between them. Just a few. |
| 1:58.8 | Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former presidential candidate, Secretary of State and First Lady of the United States, |
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