Weekend Woman’s Hour: Susie Wiles, Athlete Julien Alfred, ‘Dear Sirs’, Dating red-flag questions, The Balkan Kitchen

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In one of his first moves since his victory in the US election, President-elect Donald Trump has named his 2024 campaign manager, Susie Wiles, as his chief of staff in the White House. She will make history as the first woman to hold the title. But what do we know about the woman Trump referred to as the "ice maiden"? Kylie Pentelow was joined by Anne McElvoy, Executive Editor at Politico and host of the Power Play podcast to discuss.

The Women's 100 metre Olympic champion Julien Alfred joined Clare McDonnell in the studio. Her gold medal in Paris was the first time St Lucia had won an Olympic medal. She discusses what it took to become a champion and also having a national day named after her.

A Woman's Hour listener is fed up with the phrase 'Dear Sirs'. Ellie Rees is the co-founder of Brickworks Estate Agency and despite her team being all female, they are often addressed in this way. Clare was joined by Ellie and by Susie Dent, the author and lexicographer to discuss this.

Do you have a first date red-flag question? What would be an absolute sure-fire, definite no-no answer which would tell you there is definitely going to be no second date? Olivia Rodrigo, the American singer-songwriter and actor, is quoted as saying that if her date wants to go to space, that is a red flag for her. Krupa Padhy spoke to Helen Coffey, senior journalist at the Independent who's written her take on questions she would ask, and Poppy Jay, director and podcaster most famously on Brown Girls Do It Too and now the spin-off Big Boy Energy.

Irina Janakievska is a food writer and recipe developer. Born in what is now North Macedonia, she left her career in corporate law to follow her passion for sharing her love of Balkan cuisine. In her new cookery book, The Balkan Kitchen, she takes us on a culinary and cultural journey across the former Yugoslavia with recipes that speak for the vast and varied cuisine of a region overshadowed by conflict in recent years – from North Macedonia to Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Kosovo.

Presenter: Kylie Pentelow Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Rebecca Myatt

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.5	I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.2	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of podcasts on all sorts of subjects,
0:16.0	relationships, identity, comedy, even one that mixes poetry, music and inner city life.
0:22.4	So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature,
0:28.3	and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience. And maybe that's you.
0:33.6	So if you like this podcast, check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:38.5	Hello, this is Kylie Pentelalo and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:43.7	Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me, Kylie Pentalo.
0:47.9	In the next hour, the fastest woman on the planet, the Olympic 100-meter gold medalist Julianne Alfred. Also coming up,
0:57.0	are there certain words that put your teeth on edge every time you hear them?
1:01.9	Woman's hour listener, Ellie Reese, is on a mission to rid the world of that catch-all email
1:06.7	or letter opener, Dear Sirs. And dating red flags, after the pop star Olivia Rodrigo said in an interview that she had a red flag question when on dates,
1:18.9	she always asks if they would want to go to space.
1:22.2	If they say yes, she doesn't date them as they're a little bit too full of themselves.
1:27.3	Krupa Pardy
1:27.9	spoke to the podcaster Poppy Jay. Being Asian, with Asian guys, will absolutely first in,
1:34.8	just to scare them, we'll ask them, well, the relationship is like with their mother. If it's
1:38.2	very, very problematic, then they're going in the bin. I always ask what they don't like
1:43.7	to eat. I don't like fussy eaters.
1:47.0	So if they come up with a list of, oh, I don't like fish and I don't like this and I don't like
1:50.9	that, in the back of my mind, I'm like, well, there's no second date here. And talking about food,
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