Young Carers, Elizabeth Strout, Matilda McCrear
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
How are young carers coping in the lockdown? We hear from 17 year old James who looks after his mum and grandma. And Dr Kate Blake-Holmes joins us too. She's a social worker at the University of East Anglia and is carrying out research into this area.
As we experience lockdown, how true is it that women comply with public health messages more obediently than men? Dr Michelle Harrison sets out the facts and figures when it comes to gender difference and public health messages.
There's another chance to hear Jane's interview with the American author, Elizabeth Strout. Loads of you suggested her Olive Kitteridge novels for the lockdown.
And who was Matilda McCrear? She was the last-known survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. She was put on a boat to America in 1860 and she lived until 1940. She still has living relatives. The historian, Hannah Dunkin from the University of Newcastle, tells us about her.
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| 0:00.0 | VVC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and this is the Woman's Out podcast from the 28th of April 2020. |
| 0:11.9 | Thank you very much for listening, that's if you are. |
| 0:14.3 | This is Woman's Out, and this morning we're talking about young carers. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm delighted to say we found space for that, because that is a really important topic, |
| 0:21.6 | especially right now. |
| 0:22.6 | We'll also celebrate more lockdown reading, so many of you, when we asked about your recommendations |
| 0:28.7 | on Instagram, mentioned Elizabeth Stroud and Olive Kitchwich, so we thought this was |
| 0:33.8 | a great opportunity to replay an archive interview with Elizabeth, discussing with a slightly |
| 0:39.8 | breathless me at the life and times of Olive Kitchwich and why she's such an important |
| 0:44.6 | and inspirational creation. |
| 0:47.1 | And we'll also discuss a name you may not know, Matilda McCrea thought to be the last |
| 0:52.8 | known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, so we'll talk about her life on |
| 0:57.9 | Woman's Out this morning. |
| 0:59.9 | First of all, stay home, protect the NHS, save lives, and overall we have. |
| 1:05.6 | But is it the case that women appear to understand and comply with current public health messages |
| 1:11.9 | more readily and more often than men? |
| 1:15.6 | That we should say that statistically, it's really pretty clear, it's very stark actually. |
| 1:20.5 | COVID-19 does appear to pose more of a threat to men than to women, more men than women |
| 1:26.9 | are dying of it. |
| 1:27.9 | Dr Michelle Harrison is somebody we've talked to in the past, she's global CEO of Cantar |
| 1:32.9 | Public and WPP Government Practice, and she has conducted research into the social and |
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