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Woman's Hour

Writer Dolly Alderton. Sue Biggs CBE on moving on from her role as the RHS's DG.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Can platonic love survive romantic love as we grow up? Emma Barnett talks to to the writer Dolly Alderton about her new BBC TV series, an adaptation of her 2018 memoir ‘Everything I Know About Love’, A round-up of the weekends events for the Queen's platinum jubilee from Roya Nikkah - royal editor of The Sunday Times and Dame Prue Leith on being part of the final part of the final pageant on the Mall. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s largest gardening charity For the last 12 years Sue Biggs CBE has been its director general. She's been pivotal in creating and carrying out a huge investment programme. As she prepares to step down later this month, she talks to Emma Barnett about her work over the last decade and her plans for the future. The non-fatal strangulation law comes into effect tomorrow as part of the Domestic Abuse Act, following a successful campaign by groups such as the Centre for Women's Justice and cross-party MPs and peers. We discuss its significance and next steps with Nogah Ofer from the Centre for Women's Justice and forensic physician Dr Catherine White, who is calling for specialist training for groups who work with victims of NFS. Plus as Boris Johnson faces a vote of No Confidence in the Commons this afternoon, we hear from attorney general for England and Wales Suella Braverman and our deputy political editor Vicky Young. Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.2

Good morning, welcome to the programme.

0:11.7

It is good to be back after a week off.

0:15.1

Did I miss anything?

0:16.9

One minute, it's bunting, dancing and flags on the mouth for the Jubilee

0:20.4

and the next, a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister down the road in Westminster.

0:25.0

What a difference 24 hours makes, hey?

0:27.8

All that to come. Also on today's programme, the author, Dolly Alderton,

0:31.9

on the eve of the TV adaptation of her book, Everything I Know About Love,

0:36.2

and we explain how a new law has been created and what it means for women.

0:41.3

But I do have to ask you this,

0:42.9

in the midst of all the pomp and ceremony and street parties,

0:46.3

lunches on trestle tables,

0:48.2

darlicks and giant puppets,

0:50.2

airport delays and some political turmoil,

0:53.6

what is in the bottom of your handbag?

0:56.2

Because the bottom of a woman's handbag,

0:58.4

rucksack, satchel, whatever you sport,

1:01.0

it is a wondrous place filled with all sorts.

1:03.6

And now we know for sure that the queen keeps a marmalade sandwich in there,

1:07.6

thanks to her sketch with Paddington Bear,

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