Women and unemployment; Daisy Johnson; BBC Elite Women's Sport Survey 2020
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Presented by Jenni Murray.
Every few days we hear of more jobs going. The Bank of England said at the end of last week that unemployment is likely to hit 2.5 million this year. That means the jobless total would almost double by Christmas. Tonight there’s a Channel 4 documentary series starting which focuses on a job centre in Leeds and the people who use it. Jenni is joined by Olivia, who is a single mother mum and unemployed, Jan Baxter, who works at the jobcentre in Leeds and Helen Barnard, Acting Director of Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
In Daisy Johnson’s novel Sisters July and September have an uncannily close relationship and one is more powerful than the other. Their mother struggles to cope and when things come to a head after a nasty incident at school they flee to a house in Yorkshire which turns out not to be the refuge they needed. Jenni talks to Daisy Johnson about horror, adolescence and the relationship between the two.
The BBC Elite British Sportswomen's Survey was sent to 1,068 women in 39 different sports and received 543 responses. The survey covers trolling; funding and impact of Coronavirus; Periods and the Pill; Racism; Sexism; Abortion and Family Planning; Mental Health. Jenni discusses the findings with Becky Grey, BBC Sports reporter, Susannah Townsend, Gold medal hockey player, Priyanaz Chatterji, Scottish cricketer for Scottish Women’s Team and Tammy Parlour, CEO of Women Sport’s Trust.
Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel
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| 0:41.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Our podcast for Monday the 10th of |
| 0:46.0 | August. Good morning. Today's news on the jobs front is that one in three UK firms is expected to make redundancies and unemployment |
| 0:56.6 | is likely to rise to two and a half million this year. A Channel 4 series |
| 1:01.2 | about a Leeds job centre begins tonight. |
| 1:04.0 | What hope is there for women who are looking for work or for benefits to help keep them afloat? |
| 1:10.0 | The BBC's Elite Women's Sport Survey, What Has Been Learned. |
| 1:16.5 | And a new serial, Bird in the Hand is by Sarah Daniels. |
| 1:21.8 | Daisy Johnson is the youngest ever novelist to have been shortlisted for the |
| 1:26.1 | Booker Prize that was in 2018 and the novel her first was everything under. |
| 1:31.8 | She's now published Sisters. It's about July and |
| 1:35.8 | September named after the months in which they were born and with only 10 months |
| 1:40.6 | between them. July is the younger and the main narrator of their story which begins as they move |
| 1:46.2 | together with their mother Sheila to settle house in Yorkshire after something terrible |
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