Working from home, Care workers and Covid-19, DIY hair care
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We're being told to work from home if we can, so how is it going? Anna Harris who works for a marketing and advertising agency, and Caroline Whaley, the co-founder of a coaching consultancy aimed at women and leadership, discuss.
Lara Lewington from BBC Click offers some tips and advice for staying in touch via tech.
The Lives of Houses is a collection of essays which asks what a house can tell us about the person who lived there. Hermione Lee describes why we are so fascinated by the homes of famous literary figures.
The Government has issued new guidelines on the personal protective equipment that should be used by NHS staff on the frontline. It's also said that it's important for social care staff to feel safe, and the new guidance will offer them information and reassurance. Christina McAnea, Assistant General Secretary of UNISON which represents thousands of workers in the sector, and Margaret Hodge MP for Barking and Dagenham, discuss.
Kayleigh Llewyellyn is the writer and creator of a new BBC comedy drama series called In My Skin. Based on her own story of growing up in Wales, it follows 16 year Bethan as she negotiates her school life, sexuality, and hiding her mother’s mental illness from her friends and teachers.
What does social distancing look like in one of the more remote parts of the UK? We find out through The Woman's Hour Corona Diaries with Angela Crawford from the Isle of Lewis.
DIY hair care: the Dos and the Don'ts. Tanya Harrison is the founder of Harrison Hair Studio in Liverpool. She shares some tips if you’re eager to have a go yourself.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 0:33.0 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.1 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, |
| 0:38.6 | here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.8 | My name's Linda Davies, and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:44.4 | As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things, |
| 0:59.2 | like pop stars, poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories. |
| 1:04.4 | And that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.3 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 1:09.4 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 1:17.0 | Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 1:21.0 | In this program we will talk about how you can use tech to stay connected. |
| 1:25.2 | You can hear from Cayley Lue Ellen, she'll talk about her TV drama series In My Skin. |
| 1:30.2 | It's about her own teenage years growing up in Wales. |
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