Weekend Woman's Hour: Laura Kenny, Actor Vicky Knight, baby loss certificates
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Dame Laura Kenny, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, talks to Emma Barnett about her sporting career, motherhood and her decision to quit cycling.
Friday’s Woman’s Hour came live from Doncaster which came bottom of one league table for opportunities for women entrepreneurs in the UK last year, according to the website money.co.uk which analysed data from the Office for National Statistics. So we wanted to find out why. Anita was joined by BBC Radio Sheffield’s Paulette Edwards to speak to local entrepreneurs across the city. We hear from Rachel Stockey, Head of Entrepreneurial Skills at the Entrepreneurship Institute at King’s College, London as well as Amy Furniss who set up a business selling dried flowers in 2020 during the Covid lockdown.
On 27 February, Emma Barnett spoke to Zoe Clark-Coates, who runs the baby loss and bereavement charity The Mariposa Trust, about her campaign for baby loss certificates. They were introduced in England in February for parents who’ve lost a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy. Emma shares her own story and also speaks to a woman who’s decided it’s not for her, and another who applied straight away and has now received four baby loss certificates.
The new film Silver Haze is based on recollections of real events in actor Vicky Knight’s childhood, including when she survived an arson attacked aged just eight. Vicky talks to Emma about blending her real childhood experiences with the narrative of the film, and why she wanted to tell her story.
Have you ever had a nagging feeling that something wasn’t quite right? A gut reaction or a tingly spidey-like sense that tells you something is off? Author of Emotional Labour, Rose Hackman joins Emma to explain why we need to stop calling it 'women’s intuition'.
John Lennon told them that ‘girls don’t play guitar’, but these four girls from 1960s Liverpool were determined to prove him wrong. Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela formed Britain's first female rock'n'roll band The Liverbirds, and went on to tour stadiums across Europe, record two hit albums and play with the Kinks, Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry – all in the space of five years. Emma talks to the two surviving members of the band about their incredible story.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Hanna Ward Studio Manager: Emma Harth
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, this is Krupa Party and you're listening to the Women's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, the program each week where we gathered together the best |
| 0:54.8 | bits of Women's Hour from the week gone by and put them all in one place for you. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm Krupah party. |
| 1:00.6 | Coming up on the program, Olympic Cyclists Laura Kenny tells us why she decided to retire. |
| 1:06.0 | Actor Vicky Knight explains how her acting has helped her come to terms with her scars. |
| 1:11.0 | It wasn't until I see Dirty God for the first time in cinema as I see someone else but with |
| 1:16.1 | my scars and that's the moment I realized hang on a minute there's nothing wrong with me. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm Vicky. Plus, Women's Hour presenter Emma Barnet shares her experience of applying for a baby loss certificate. |
| 1:28.0 | And Friday's Women's Hour was live in Doncaster. We'll hear from Anita and some special guests about what it |
| 1:34.8 | takes to be a female entrepreneur. Not only have we left Womensower HQ for |
| 1:39.5 | Yorkshire, I am joined by Paulette Edwards from BBC Radio Sheffield. |
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