Summary
We're putting our head in the clouds and going in search of wonder. How do we find it and how do we keep hold of it when life gets in the way?
We know that women still hold the lion’s share of caring responsibilities and typically carry the mental load for home, often on top of work. How do we make space for the perspective that wonder gives us, when we’re distracted by the perpetual to do list? And can a sense of wonder, with its built-in inspiration and aspiration, help us see beyond the day-to-day?
To lead us on this quest we have an eclectic mix of wonder-women: the award-winning children’s author and academic, Katherine Rundell, evolutionary biologist and explorer, Ella Al-Shamahi, the environmentalist-turned-musician Natalie Fée and Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, computer scientist and former ‘wunder-kind’. We’ll also hear from Dr. Jean Bennett, the research scientist whose medical breakthrough recently restored the sight of a six-year-old girl. And joining us from New York, Jenette Khan, the first ever female boss of the Wonder Woman-publisher, DC Comics.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty McQuire
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:09.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:12.1 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:17.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging |
| 0:25.2 | out of the ever-expanding global DNA database. |
| 0:28.8 | They did know that I was different. |
| 0:31.7 | You had kids together. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:34.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:35.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:36.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, I'm Nula McGovern and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Just to say that for |
| 0:44.9 | rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to Woman's Hour, but not as you usually know it. |
| 1:00.3 | For the spring bank holiday, we're taking a break from business as usual to put our head in the clouds and go in search of wonder. |
| 1:03.2 | How do we find it? |
| 1:04.6 | And crucially, how do we hold on to that feeling when life tries to get in the way? |
| 1:10.6 | Now, we know that women still hold the lion's share of caring responsibilities |
| 1:14.6 | and typically carry the mental load for home, often on top of work, |
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