Weekend Woman's Hour - Libby Scott and mum Kym on Autism, the future of the High Street & Anne Robinson
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The novelist Libby Scott has just released her third novel ‘Ways to Be Me’ in collaboration with the author Rebecca Westcott. Along with her mum she tells us about her new book and it’s realistic portrayal of autism, and her own diagnosis at the age of 10.
The presenter, journalist and “Queen of Mean”, Anne Robinson, tells us about becoming the first female host of Channel 4’s longest running series Countdown
We discuss why the future of the high street needs to put women at the centre of its design and overall regeneration. Mary Portas has done a TED talk and podcast arguing for a new approach by business and customers and has now written a book about it all called “Rebuild”. Suzannah Clarke has published new research saying women are responsible for 85% of spending on the High Street and they need to be taken into account in future planning if the downward trends are to be reversed.
Eilidh Doyle is Scotland’s most decorated track and field athlete of all time. The Olympic, World and European medal holder had hoped to compete in the Olympics in Tokyo this month but instead announced her retirement from competitive athletics. She tells us about coming to that decision about retirement and why she is involved in a project with Abertay University, where elite athletes and sporting figures share their experiences of unexpected setbacks and coping strategies with people who have been negatively impacted by Covid.
And the writer Emily Rapp Black, whose left leg was amputated at the age of four due to a congenital defect, tells us about the instant connection she felt with the artist Frida Kahlo. Her new book ‘Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg’ describes how Emily has made sense of her own life and body.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Louise Corley
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's |
| 0:08.0 | Hour from BBC Radio 4. Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. On |
| 0:13.6 | today's programme we'll hear from the queen of mean herself Anne Robinson talking about |
| 0:18.4 | fronting the quiz show Countdown. We'll discuss why women need to be at the forefront |
| 0:23.0 | of all decision making when it comes to the future of the High Street. Most of the women |
| 0:27.1 | in this research said, I still do all the cooking, the shopping, the childcare, looking |
| 0:31.2 | after older people. And yet they're now professionals, they're expected to be up in top management |
| 0:37.0 | as buyer to that. And yet with this change in role, the High Street hasn't reflected |
| 0:42.0 | this, they're too busy many of them to get onto the High Street. |
| 0:45.6 | Anne Scotland's most decorated track and field athlete of all time, Ailey Doyle tells us |
| 0:50.3 | why she's retiring from the sport. And the 13-year-old author, Libby Scott, gives us her take |
| 0:56.0 | on being autistic. Everyone's different and just because you have |
| 0:59.4 | autism doesn't mean you're different in a bad way, it just means you're even better |
| 1:03.4 | almost. If you don't have autism and you're listening to this, I hope you know that it's |
| 1:07.0 | not a disability, it's not a disease or anything like that, it's just purely a different |
| 1:12.7 | thought process. |
| 1:14.0 | But first Anne Robinson. Journalist, presenter and self-styled queen of mean has this week |
| 1:20.2 | become the first female host of Countdown, best known for her a cervic style of presenting |
| 1:25.2 | on the weakest link. She became the highest-paid female presenter on British TV. In the 1960s, |
| 1:31.4 | she was the first young female trainee on the Daily Mail, worked at the Sunday Times |
| 1:35.6 | and the Daily Mirror and went on to host programmes from points of view to watchdog. |
| 1:40.8 | Now Anne takes up the Countdown reigns of Channel 4's longest running series. She joins |
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