Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin; Susan Rogers, Prince's sound engineer; Panic attacks
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Tracey Emin was one of the leading figures of the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. She has recently undergone radical surgery to treat bladder cancer. For her latest exhibition - The Loneliness of the Soul – she has selected masterpieces by Edvard Munch to show alongside her most recent paintings.
Mental health blogger and author of ‘F**K I Think I'm Dying: How I learned to live with panic’, Claire Eastham explains how she manages her panic attacks. She is joined by psychotherapist Dawn Estefan to discuss why we have panic attacks, how they feel and how best to cope with them.
Whether you’re an experienced cyclist or if you're completely new to cycling, there's no doubt it's intimidating on the roads. Cycling expert, Aneela McKenna shares tips for how women can feel more confident while riding their bikes on the road.
Rosie Ayliffe’s daughter, Mia Ayliffe Chung was killed in 2016 at a remote farmworkers’ hostel while backpacking in Australia. Since Mia's death Rosie has been campaigning to improve conditions for young casual workers, helping to change the law in three of the six states of Australia.
What's behind the decline in male fertility? The global population currently stands at 7.9 billion, and is projected to peak at 9.7 billion in just over 40 years' time. Those huge numbers are often blamed on women having too many children. In reality, fertility has been in long-term decline for decades. Dr Shanna Swan, Professor of Environmental Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York thinks we should be paying much more attention to the chemicals in our environment that come from everyday products as her research is showing consistent effects on sperm counts, sperm quality and overall male fertility.
Susan Rogers talks about what it was like working with Prince as his sound engineer on albums including ‘Purple Rain, ‘Around the World in a Day and ‘Sign o’ the Times’. After two decades in the music industry she left and went on to earn a doctorate in psychology. She’s now a professor of music at Berkeley College in Boston, and is being awarded the Music Producers Guild’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’– the first woman to ever win the award.
Whether you’re an experienced cyclist or if you're completely new to cycling, there's no doubt it's intimidating on the roads. Cycling expert Aneela McKenna shares tips for how women can feel more confident when riding their bikes.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Sarah Crawley
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| 0:41.0 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. podcasts. On the program today, Rosie Acliff talks about her daughter Mia, who was killed while |
| 0:55.8 | backpacking in Australia. |
| 0:57.8 | Dr Shanna Swan explores the chemicals in our environment that come from everyday products and the effects on male fertility. |
| 1:05.2 | I don't think we can go on and just accept this as business as usual. |
| 1:09.5 | It's too risky. There are many, many species on the planet that have been endangered or wiped out, and we don't want the same fate to happen to us. |
| 1:20.0 | We hear from Susan Rogers, who was Prince's sound engineer in the 80s and who also worked |
| 1:25.3 | with David Byrne, the Bear Naked Ladies and Jeff Black. |
| 1:28.6 | And cycling expert and Niella McKenna shares tips on how women can feel more confident when riding a bike, padded |
| 1:35.0 | like her maybe. |
| 1:36.8 | Now Tracy Emmin was one of the leading figures of the young British artist movement of the |
| 1:41.4 | 1990s. |
| 1:42.4 | Hers is a uniquely provocative confessional style which confronts issues such as trauma of abortion, rape, |
| 1:49.6 | alcoholism and sexual history. |
| 1:52.1 | Her famous artworks include everyone I've ever slept with |
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