Weekend Woman's Hour: Listener Week

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Why does society judge women who are single? We’ll hear from listener Joy, Emily Hill author of Bad Romance and from the journalist Bibi Lynch. Doreen and Virginia have belonged to the same book club, set up in 1965, for decades - is it one of the oldest in the UK? They're joined by Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie Carter who are the co-founders of the Black Girls Book Club to discuss why book clubs are so appealing to women. We explore Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (inattentive type) in girls, with Heidi whose daughter was diagnosed at 14 and Dr Celine Ryckaert a clinical lecturer at King’s College London. And we talk about the pain of a close friendship ending with Annabel Fenwick-Elliot senior content editor at The Telegraph and psychotherapist Hilda Burke. Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane Thurlow

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.1	Hello, good afternoon.
0:06.1	Welcome to a slightly shorter edition of the Weekend Woman's Hour program.
0:10.6	This week we're featuring some of the highlights of our listener week.
0:14.3	And if you missed any of the programs last week, I really hope you get the chance to revisit
0:18.6	them.
0:19.6	You can hear the podcast, of course, on BBC Sounds.
0:22.4	You may have missed Anne, who told us about getting divorced as she headed for her golden
0:27.1	wedding anniversary.
0:28.4	I don't think I realised quite how unhappy I was until I was away from home and I was
0:33.6	doing something a bit different.
0:35.5	And I realised that I was happy.
0:37.5	And it was a feeling that I realised that I hadn't had for a very long time.
0:42.5	And then there was 19-year-old Gwyneth, who was fed up with unwanted attention in public.
0:48.3	There was this crazy guy.
0:50.8	He grabbed my friend's thigh and then we like shouted at him and he burst out laughing.
0:55.3	And then the next day, I can't remember what it was that was shouted at us, but it was
0:59.0	quite gross.
1:00.7	And then when I went home, I put on a long t-shirt and trousers and I was like, I'm dressing
1:06.5	like this for the rest of the summer.
1:08.8	And Bernard, who talked about coping with life after the death of his wife.
1:12.8	I did not want to sit at home brooding.
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