Weekend Woman’s Hour: Lottie Tomlinson, Madwomen of the West, Infants and domestic abuse, Elles Bailey
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Lottie Tomlinson rose to fame as the younger sister of One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson. At 16, she went on tour with the band as a makeup artist and a decade on, has become an entrepreneur. Lottie’s mother and sister died within a few years of each other, when she was just 20-years-old. She joins Anita to talk about her experience of grief, which she’s written about her new memoir, Lucky Girl.
Madwomen of the West is currently on stage at the Riverside Studios in London. Set in a suburban mansion - a group of women gather for an eventful birthday brunch and discuss topics ranging from gender politics to professional expectations, shifting marital relationships, menopause and womanhood. With four leading women over the age of 70 it stars stage and screen luminaries Marilu Henner, Caroline Aaron, Brooke Adams, and Melanie Mayron. Caroline and Marilu join Nuala.
New figures released today suggest that children under two are present at 13% of police call outs to domestic abuse incidents in England, amounting to around 185,000 babies and toddlers. So what can the effect be on children of witnessing domestic abuse? And what can be done to overcome the trauma they could experience? We hear from Lauren Seager-Smith, CEO of the For Baby's Sake Trust and Dr Sheila Redfern, consultant clinical child and adolescent psychologist and Head of Family Trauma at Anna Freud, a world-leading mental health charity for children and families.
Food writer Meera Sodha’s new cookbook, Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day, pays homage to the restorative power of cooking for the ones you love. Meera says it was written in the midst of ‘a difficult personal time and much reflection.’ She joins Nuala to talk about mental health and rediscovering her love for food.
The British roots, blues and Americana rock sensation Elles Bailey is a real trailblazer: she's a mother, a label boss, an artist, a champion of women in music, and she has been inducted into the UK Blues Hall of Fame. She joins Anita to talk about her unique voice, her new album and to perform live in the studio.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Louise Corley
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read |
| 0:08.2 | everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge. |
| 0:14.7 | It's part of what it means to be human. |
| 0:17.5 | Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance. |
| 0:22.1 | There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative. |
| 0:25.0 | The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan |
| 0:29.0 | with me Rory Stewart, |
| 0:31.0 | listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womanzawa |
| 0:42.0 | from BBC Radio 4, just to say that for rights reasons |
| 0:45.6 | the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me Anita Rani. |
| 0:54.0 | Today the veteran actors Marilu Henna of Taxi Fame and Caroline Arran, |
| 0:58.0 | who you may know as Shirley Maisel, the marvelous mother-in-law |
| 1:02.0 | in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. |
| 1:04.1 | They're starring in Mad Women of the West a rollicking play about the issues faced at a later |
| 1:09.1 | stage of life. |
| 1:10.9 | The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 recognised for the first time that children who witness or are |
| 1:16.2 | present in households where there's domestic abuse are also victims. |
| 1:20.3 | We'll be discussing the impact domestic abuse can have on children and how interventions are being made to attempt to prevent it. |
| 1:27.0 | The Cook and Food Writer Mira Soda on the restorative power of cooking. |
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