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Woman's Hour

Women's magazines, Dawn Sturgess, Female funeral directors

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For generations of women and girls, glossy magazines have been a guide to clothes, lifestyles, relationships and, of course, sex. Titles like Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Own and Sugar were pored over by thousands of us and now there is a podcast that celebrates those beloved back issues. Every week the hosts of Mag Hags, Lucy Douglas and Franki Cookney, read a different issue of a magazine from the 70s, 80s or 90s. As well as revelling in the 20th Century fashions, features and lifestyle advice, Lucy and Franki join Nuala McGovern to uncover a fascinating insight into the way we lived then, and the way we live now.

A public inquiry begins today which will explore the circumstances of the death of Dawn Sturgess, the woman from Wiltshire killed by a 2018 poisoning blamed on Russian agents. Her death came four months after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury. At the time Prime Minister Theresa May said the Skripals were poisoned with the military grade nerve agent, Novichok and that it was "highly likely" that Russia was responsible - a claim Russia denies. Dawn Sturgess died after coming in to contact with the nerve agent which had been hidden inside a perfume bottle. Nuala is joined by BBC Wiltshire's Marie Lennon, one of the voices behind the new BBC Podcast, Salisbury Poisonings.

Black Box Diaries is a feature-length documentary that follows the director Shiori Itō’s investigation into her own alleged sexual assault in an attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Opening up questions around the #MeToo movement in Japan, Shiori explains how her quest became a landmark case exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.

Death is a subject many people still shy away from, but one woman is determined to change that. Funeral director Inez Capps is on a mission to challenge the taboos around death and demystify an industry often shrouded in mystery. Since the age of 19, she’s been working with the deceased, and she’s using social media to give people a glimpse behind the scenes — from the care a loved one receives, to tours of the hearse and the embalming suite. Inez runs a funeral business with her parents in the East Midlands.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to tell you why I love

0:03.7

podcasting. I'm Natasha Aronson I'm an assistant commissioner for the BBC and I work on

0:09.4

making podcasts my real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest

0:16.9

stars who can really bring those stories to life.

0:20.1

I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final edit.

0:26.4

There's nothing like it. What makes BBC Podcast special is that we're working for you.

0:31.0

So whatever we commission has to reflect the things that you care about and love wherever you are in the UK.

0:36.5

So if you like this BBC podcast there's so much more to discover.

0:40.3

Have a listen on BBC sounds.

0:42.1

Hello this is Nula McGovrin and you're listening to the Women's Our Podcast.

0:47.0

Hello, welcome to the program.

0:49.0

Sheori Ito is with me today and she'll be in our studio.

0:53.2

She already is for Manny, the face of the Me Too movement in Japan.

0:58.3

She is a young woman who took on Japan's authorities and its conservative culture after alleging that she was

1:04.2

raped by a prominent figure in Japan. She has now directed an extraordinary documentary

1:09.9

about her story and we're going to hear what she hopes to achieve with its release.

1:14.4

Also today we'll hear about the inquiry getting underway at 11 a.m. focusing on Dawn Sturgis who died

1:19.5

after coming into contact with the Nerve agent Novichock. We're also reminiscing about the magazines

1:25.2

that influenced us long before influencers were a thing. Do you have a vivid memory of advice,

1:32.4

and I put that in inverted commas that you

1:34.8

tuck from a magazine can be good or bad ideas that you followed for your life

1:39.4

your work, relationships, beauty, sex. I remember trying to erase my freckles with lemon juice.

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