Weekend Woman's Hour: Men and stopping sexist behaviour, Grenfell play, Date Stacking
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What role should men play in stopping sexist behaviour? Several campaigns have aimed to tackle this, the most recent being the Mayor of London’s Maaate initiative. To discuss we're joined by Karen Whybro, a woman’s safety consultant and Graham Goulden, the former Chief Inspector at Police Scotland who now offers training to organisations to improve team culture.
This year marks the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire where 72 people lost their lives. A new play created from interviews conducted with a group of survivors has opened at the National Theatre. Grenfell: in the words of survivors follows the lead up to the disaster, the night of the fire, and the Grenfell Inquiry which followed, and is still ongoing. We're joined by its writer Gillian Slovo and actor Pearl Mackie.
‘Date stacking’ is the latest trend being tried by single people to find love, quickly. The concept, designed to save time by squeezing in several dates in the space of a few hours, went viral on TikTok earlier this year. But can you really decide if you like someone while preparing for the next date? We discuss the pros and cons with journalist Roisin Kelly and dating strategist Johnny Cassell.
Anna Sewell was the author of Black Beauty, one of the bestselling novels of all time. Despite suffering ill health throughout her life, she managed to rouse the conscience of Victorian Britain and make her mark upon the world. Dr Celia Brayfield tells us about her life and the impact of the book on animal rights.
How much time would it take to photograph every single item in your home? Photographer Barbara Iweins spent four years documenting the 12,795 objects she owns. She explains the inspiration behind the project.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Lucy Wai Editor: Sarah Crawley
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| 0:04.5 | I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC and I work on making podcasts. |
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| 0:42.8 | Welcome to Weekend Women's Hour, where we bring you the best bits from the week just |
| 0:46.4 | gone. |
| 0:47.4 | Coming up, a new play about the Grenfell Fire created from the words of survivors has opened |
| 0:52.2 | at the National Theatre. |
| 0:53.8 | Will you discuss with the actor, Pearl Mackey and the plays writer, Jillian Slowvo? |
| 0:59.0 | Have you ever tried date stacking? |
| 1:00.7 | That is the trend of going on back-to-back dates in a short space of time. |
| 1:05.3 | One writer tells us why she's given it a go. |
| 1:08.1 | To be honest, I was just a bit bored of spending my evenings going on these dates that came |
| 1:11.9 | to nothing that weren't particularly enjoyable. |
| 1:15.9 | So I just saw that and thought, why not? |
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