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The Art of Bombing: A Podcast About Stand-Up Comedy
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In the Art of Bombing podcast, comedians talk about comedy and how sometimes it just does not go as planned. Hosts, Dan & Josh talk to comedians about their worst performances and give tips on what to do and NOT to do when performing and how to cope with failure. Whether you are an aspiring comedian or a comedy nerd, The Art of Bombing has something for everyone! Available wherever you get your podcasts.
Greg Staffa created The Staffa Corner Podcast to provide listeners with a Staffatarian look at entertainment and life. Focusing on honest conversation, Staffa’s podcast is an appreciation of those he finds interesting in and out of television and film.The journey taken by Staffa in the industry started more than 8 years ago writing for Your Entertainment Corner. Motivated by the desire to become more knowledgeable in his field, he leveraged his learned and acquired knowledge and skills and e ...
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Make Your Mark - Breaking the Glass Ceiling - Women, Voting, and Equality - WBDC
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Influential women share their own glass ceiling stories and personal reflections. Guests discuss how they became civically engaged, impacted politics and society, make connections to women who came before them, and examine the challenges that still persist for women today. Visit wbdc.org for more information
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Chief Hawkins Speaks with APD Dispatchers Christina Coluccio and Ixory Palacios
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In this episode I speak with two dedicated telecommunications specialists (commonly known as dispatchers) from the APD Communications Division. The dispatchers at the APD are truly the unsung heroes of the APD. As the first link in the emergency services chain, they are the first person a member of our community speaks with when they need police, f…
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Hormonal contraception, Ghost children, Narcissism, Mabel Constanduros
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Taking any type of hormonal contraception could increase your risk of getting breast cancer, according to a new study by the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Oxford Population Health, which is part of the University of Oxford. It’s one of the first big studies into this type of birth control assessing the risk of breast cancer. But headlines like this w…
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Trust in the Police? Have you say and call Nuala McGovern at Woman's Hour
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On a special phone in edition of Woman's Hour we look at trust in the police following the review by Baroness Casey into a toxic culture at the Met Police. She found the 'the force has lost the trust and confidence of the people it is supposed to keep safe' and gave shocking examples of sexism, racism and homophobia. The report was commissioned in …
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The Baroness Casey Review with Dame Lynne Owens & Claire Waxman, Dance your way home, Narcissistic mother
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Baroness Louise Casey has today published the final report on her review into the Metropolitan Police. Joining Nuala McGovern to discuss the findings are a female metropolitan police officer, Deputy Commissioner of the Met Police Dame Lynne Owens and London Victim's Commissioner, Claire Waxman, who works alongside the Metropolitan Police and the Cr…
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Peaks and Valleys: Navigating Business Ups and Downs with Anna Harman of Studs
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You don’t often hear people touting the benefits of seeing the glass half-empty, but Anna Harman believes that’s what makes her an effective decision maker in tumultuous times. After launching Studs piercing stores in 2019, the company quickly needed to grow an online presence in order to make it through the pandemic without closing permanently. Lu…
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Reality TV star Georgia Harrison on 'revenge porn', ‘Seven Winters in Tehran’, Fairness in sport, Romance on the bus.
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Known for shows like Love Island and The Only Way is Essex, social media influencer Georgia Harrison talks to Nuala McGovern about her new TV documentary. It follows her successful legal battle against her former partner who filmed and shared a sex video of the two of them without her consent on the OnlyFans websiteA couple’s creative bus stop marr…
Between Bombs Callbacks (Ep. 267)! On this all-new Between Bombs, Dan and Josh callback episode 267 with Garie Lewis and discuss the importance of recording sets, remembering that you can't make everyone laugh, and recovering after one loses their composure. Art of Bombing: "Nobody Had a Podcast Called The Art of Bombing" Theme by John Hult (https:…
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Paris Hilton, FGM report, Annie Lennox, Country-pop duo Ward Thomas
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Paris Hilton has been called ‘the first influencer’ and is known for being an ‘it-girl’. But behind the paparazzi pictures there’s a darker story. Now for the first time, Paris is telling her story in her own words in her new book Paris: The Memoir. She joins Anita Rani to talk about her life, why she wanted to write her story now, and being a new …
Anita and Annie are joined by Kalpona Akter, an ambassador for The Circle who worked in a garment factory when she was just 12 years old. The government’s first Menopause Employment Champion Helen Tomlinson joins the programme to discuss how she will advise employers on improving workplace support for women experiencing menopause symptoms. And we h…
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Paris Hilton, Anneka Rice, Gas & Air, Budget 2023
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Paris Hilton, reality TV star, so-called 'inventor of the selfie,' and business woman, joins Anita to talk about her new book 'Paris: The Memoir.' The former socialite first appeared on-screen in the early noughties with her hit reality TV show, The Simple Life. Now she’s opening up about her life in the spotlight.Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveile…
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The Art of Bombing: A Podcast About Stand-Up Comedy
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Go Back To College with Garie Lewis (Siouxland's Choice Awards Comedian of the Year)
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Episode 267: Go Back to College! He doesn’t remember much about it because it happened in 1983, but Garie Lewis’ first set featured props and stolen jokes from Steven Wright and Bill Cosby. When he walked off stage, the club owner told him to ‘go back to college.’ Lucky for us, he didn’t. Garie and Stand-Up Comic Dan Bublitz Jr revisit story after …
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Budget 2023 Childcare, FGM report, Sex education in schools, Courting India, Country-pop duo Ward Thomas
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Today’s budget announcement is expected to include an expansion of free childcare provision for working parents in England for one and two-year-olds. The plans will be outlined by the Chancellor in full later today. Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson joins Nuala McGovern to talk through what the changes could mean for parents…
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Author and judge Nicola Williams, Abortion in the UK update, Police violence against women
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Nicola Williams’ new novel Until Proven Innocent sees the return of Lee Mitchell, a young barrister from a working-class Caribbean background, who is strong-armed into defending a supposedly corrupt racist police officer charged with the death of a 15-year-old pastor's son. Nicola served for many years as a criminal barrister, one of the few black …
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Encore Episode: Amy Shecter on Creativity, Failure and Growth
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*At the time of this interview, Amy Shecter was the CEO of Glamsquad. She is now the CEO of Ever/Body.* How would your life be different if you were less afraid to make mistakes, to “fail”? Amy Shecter doesn’t think women let themselves fail enough, and she thinks it’s high time we become less risk-averse. Statistically, she says, women will only t…
Introducing Between Bombs Callbacks (Ep. 266)! On this all-new revamped Between Bombs, Dan and Josh will be doing callbacks on the previous episode's key takeaways and discussing the nuts and bolts of comedy. In episode 266, we were joined by Adam Mamawala (Comedy Central, BET), and some key takeaways were earning and establishing trust, focusing o…
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Karen Krizanovich and Heidi Ellert-McDermott on the Oscars, new Paula Yates documentary, abortion rights in the US
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As a new Channel 4 documentary is released, Nuala McGovern hears more about her life from director Charlie Russell.Who were the female winners at the Academy Awards last night? What were the surprises and omissions? Who gave the best acceptance speeches? We talk to the film critic Karen Krizanovich and speech writer Heidi Ellert-McDermott.Five wome…
What happens when a friendship breaks down? How can you repair it? Should you even try?In this special Sunday podcast, Nuala McGovern brings together all the interviews from Woman's Hour's 'Forever Friends?' series.Annie and Lizzie first met at school, and Lizzie said she believed they were ‘kindred spirits’. But soon after Annie’s first child was …
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Malala Yousafzai, Grassroots sport, Talking about not having children
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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate. Since she was shot by a member of the Taliban at just 15, Malala has spent nearly a decade fighting for the educational rights of girls and women across the globe. Now she’s turning her attention to Hollywood, as Executive Producer of the short documen…
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Eurovision entry Mae Muller, Director Raine Allen-Miller, Online bullying
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Singer-songwriter Mae Muller has been announced as this year’s British entry for Eurovision, she joins Krupa to discuss how excited she is to represent the UK.Watch out Notting Hill, there is a new romantic comedy in town… and this time it’s set in Peckham. It’s called Rye Lane, and it stars David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah as Dom and Yas, two twent…
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Emily Watson, Earthquake, The Lesbian Project, Big Mama Thornton, Cost of childcare
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Emily Watson is starring in a new film ‘God’s Creatures,’ set in a remote Irish fishing village. She plays a mother torn between protecting her son and her own sense of right and wrong. When she provides an alibi for him, the lie rips apart their family and local community. Emily joins Woman’s Hour to talk about her character, women in the oyster f…
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You Have To Pay Your Dues with Adam Mamawala (Comedy Central, BET)
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Episode 266: You Have To Pay Your Dues with Adam Mamawala! Adam Mamawala (Comedy Central, BET) is a New York-based stand-up comedian who started working on shows in college and then moved into working the road. He tells several great bombing stories - from a wake-up call at his first true open mic to getting scolded during professional corporate gi…
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Foreign Secretary James Cleverly MP, Poet Kim Moore, Chief Fire Officer Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
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On International Women’s Day we talk to the foreign secretary, James Cleverly MP, as he travels to Sierra Leone to launch the UK’s new international women and girls strategy.Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is one the most senior fire fighters in the UK. The current Chief Fire Officer of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service has in her 22 year career covered …
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Writer Heidi Thomas, Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy, Codeword Mascara
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On last night’s Panorama, Twitter insiders told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolls, following lay-offs and changes under the owner Elon Musk. Lisa Jennings Young is the former head of Content Design at Twitter, and worked on safety features aiming to protect users from online hate, including misogyny. In October…
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Dream Loud, Dream Big: Creating Wealth for a Better World with Natalie Dawson of Cardone Ventures
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When Natalie Dawson and her husband sold their company, they had pretty much achieved every entrepreneur’s dream. But settling into a pseudo-retirement lifestyle didn’t sit well with Natalie, and it wasn’t long before she was brainstorming the next big way to make an impact. Pairing with Grant Cardone, Natalie co-founded Cardone Ventures, a managem…
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Malala Yousafzai, Festival headliners, Discussing whether or not you want children with a partner, Comedian Jayde Adams
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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate. Malala was just 15 when, on the way home from school, a member of the Taliban boarded her bus, asked for her by name, and shot her in the head. In the decade since, Malala has continued to fight for the educational rights of girls and women across the …
Five women. Five inspirational stories. Earlier this year, Woman’s Hour spoke to women from all different backgrounds and professions about the moment they found their voice. When was the moment they realised they had to speak up? And how did it change them? For International Women’s Day, Anita Rani brings you all of the interviews from the ‘Findin…
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Iranian schoolgirls, the womb, Cynthia Erivo, No More Page 3, UK marriage law changes
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Schoolgirls in Iran have been admitted to hospital this week after reportedly being poisoned by gas whilst at school. Many Iranians suspect the poisonings are a deliberate attempt to force girls’ schools to close, although the government has not confirmed. Faranak Amidi, BBC Near East Women's Affairs correspondent and Azadeh Pourzand, human rights …
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Actor Bukky Bakray, Iranian schoolgirls and poisoning, Singer Karen Carpenter reframed, TikTok school protests
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Actor, Bukky Bakray, who at 19, became the youngest BAFTA Rising Star Award recipient as well as one of the youngest 'Best Actress in a Leading Role' nominees for her critically acclaimed performance in the film Rocks. Bukky makes her stage debut in the coming of age play Sleepova in which four Black teenage friends explore sexuality, identity, rel…
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That was Dirty and Mean with Mike Cotayo (Opie & Anthony)
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Episode 265: That was Dirty and Mean! In this Art of Bombing episode, hear veteran comic Mike Cotayo (Opie & Anthony) spill great pearls with stand-up comedian and host Dan Bublitz Jr. Hear about the difference between corporate and non-corporate gigs, why contracts matter, how a comic becomes clean or blue, pairing comedy with non-comic speaking g…
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Diana Parkes, Breast health and sport, Great Stork Derby, No More Page 3
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Diana Parkes, the mother of a woman killed by her pilot husband more than a decade ago has called on the Justice Secretary to intervene over his possible release from prison in November. Anita talks to Diana Parkes, Joanna's best friend Hetti Barkworth-Nanton and the former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland. Why do breast injuries in sport appear t…
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Chief Hawkins Speaks with Detective Roger Zapata
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In this episode I speak with Detective Roger Zapata who works in the Criminal Investigation Unit investigating many cases from larcenies to homicides. Detective Zapata tells me about his time in the Dominican Republic as well as his career in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) before joining the ranks of the APD.…
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Cynthia Erivo, Eating disorder system failures, Writer Christina Patterson, Cancer gene testing
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People with eating disorders are being repeatedly failed by the system and radical changes need to be made to prevent further tragedies. That’s according to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman UK, Rob Behrens. He says little progress has been made in the six years since the publication of a report which highlighted serious failings in ea…
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Teachers' strike, Midwife Leah Hazard on the womb, Sexual violence in Ukraine, Best performance by a jumper
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As teachers strike again over pay this week we talk to the BBC's Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys.As awards season continues we want to know - who should win best performance by a jumper? Mark Darcey’s reindeer jumper? Cameron Diaz’s knitwear in The Holiday? Fashion journalist Naomi Pike talks to Woman’s Hour about the most iconic knitwear in film…
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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Start a Business: Jaclyn Johnson of New Money Ventures
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Jaclyn Johnson, one of our favorite serial entrepreneurs, is back and ready to share some of her most helpful insights as a recent co-founder of a venture capital brand. New Money Ventures seeks to invest in women-led brands that make it their mission to disrupt traditional models of products and distribution, and if they see a hole in the market w…
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Migrant boat deaths in Italy, Gambling addiction and crime, 60 swims at 60, Getting married at 16
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At least 59 migrants, including 33 women and 12 children, have died and dozens more are feared missing after their boat sank in rough seas off southern Italy. The vessel broke apart while trying to land near Crotone on Sunday. A baby was among the dead, Italian officials said. Bodies were recovered from the beach at a nearby seaside resort in the C…
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British Ambassador to Ukraine Dame Melinda Simmons, Kirsty Sedgman, Black women and cancer, Eleanor McEvoy and Averil Mansfield
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Dame Melinda Simmons, the British Ambassador to Ukraine, joins Hayley Hassall to mark one year on from the Russian invasion. She talks about the impact the war is having on women and girls in the country, as well as the strength and heroism women are showing as they adapt their lives to exist in a constant state of war.Who decides what’s reasonable…
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Dame Melinda Simmons, British Ambassador to Ukraine, Fully female clergy, Twin sisters on pregnancy & miscarriage; Quilting
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It is a year since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. The war has severely impacted social cohesion, community security and the resilience of local communities, especially women and girls. Approximately 5.4 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine, and 8 million people have registered as refugees across Europe. Woman’s Hour speaks to the UK a…
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The Art of Bombing: A Podcast About Stand-Up Comedy
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Hurricane Sandy Was All My Fault with Emily Paige (The Ladies Room Comedy Festival)
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Episode 264: Hurricane Sandy Was All My Fault! Emily Paige (The Ladies Room Comedy Festival), a New Jersey-based comic, began doing Stand Up during the pandemic. She lets Dan Bublitz Jr in some of the things that are helping her to develop her voice: her writing style, some differences between doing virtual and live comedy, and how often comics wri…
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The UK’s first woman vascular surgeon, South African choreographer Dada Masilo, Benefits of older siblings.
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Averil Mansfield was the UK’s first woman vascular surgeon and first female professor of surgery. She qualified as a surgeon in the early 1970s, at a time when only two per cent of her colleagues were female – and was often met with disbelief bordering on amusement when telling people what she did. She talks to Woman’s Hour about her medical achiev…
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Black women and cancer, Eleanor McEvoy, Shamima Begum ruling, Yazidi women, A Victorian dress diary
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New research from Cancer Research UK and NHS Digital has revealed that Black women from Caribbean and African backgrounds are more likely to be diagnosed with certain types of cancer at later stages, when treatment is less likely to be successful. This study is the first to show that ethnicity is a significant factor in late-stage diagnosis for wom…
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Nicola Bulley, tearing during childbirth, black women swim, tweakments gone mad?
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We discuss the statement released by Nicola Bulley's family following the sad news that that the body found in river Wyre had been formally identified as Nicola Bulley who had been missing for over 3 weeks. They expressed their pain on how their loved ones were treated throughout this ordeal. They called for accountability, and for another family n…
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Encore Episode: Talking Flowers and Fundraising With Christina Stembel
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We’ll address the big question first: Christina Stembel of Farmgirl Flowers really did grow up on a farm. Growing up in northern Indiana, Christina was expected to fulfill her womanly duties as a wife and mother while her brother went off to college. But Christina had other plans. She hightailed it to New York within two weeks of graduating from hi…
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Dr Kirsty Sedgman, Esther Webber, Jenny Symmons, Elaine Dunkley, Nadine Benjamin
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Who gets to decide about social norms, about what's reasonable and unreasonable behaviour? Is it OK to breastfeed in public, to let your children play in the garden while others are working from home? Can we come together and talk about these things reasonably? According to Dr Kirsty Sedgman, the author of a new book, On being Unreasonable: Breakin…
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Aimee Lou Wood, Wayne Couzens and Indecent Assault, Nne Nne Iwuji-Eme on African Queens, Nell Mescal
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Actor Aimee Lou Wood is best known for her role in Netflix’s Sex Education. Her character - also called Aimee - was at the heart of some of the most iconic storylines that came out of the first three seasons of the show. Now she’s taking to the stage as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End. She talks about performing in …
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Sukhdev Reel on her son Ricky, Aimee Lou Wood, Anita Bhagwandas, Sober dating
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Ricky Reel’s body was discovered in the River Thames 25 years ago, a week after he had gone missing following a racist attack when he was on a night out with friends. His case was never solved, the police initially believed he had run away from an arranged marriage and later that his death was an accident. The case is now being re-examined by the M…
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Sorry, We Have To Take You To Jail with PJ Johnson (Four Corners Comedy Festival)
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Episode 263: Sorry, we have to take you to jail! PJ Johnson is a Detroit-born, Denver-area comic who works the road. He tells stand-up comedian and Art of Bombing Podcast host Dan Bublitz Jr two great bombing stories. In the first one, he tried a little too hard to control the crowd. In the second, he sheds light on the other half of the story we h…
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Nicola Sturgeon resignation; Sharon Rose plays Sylvia Pankhurst; The power of sport; Femicide in Europe
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As Scotland’s First Minister announces her resignation after nearly a decade in the job we consider her legacy, the reasons for and the timing of her decision to go and consider who might take over with the Scotsman’s Political Editor Alistair Grant and journalist Ruth Wishart.The musical Sylvia has just opened at the Old Vic celebrating the life o…
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Wayne Couzens and Indecent Assault, African Queens, Sleepovers, Male Pill and Nikki Haley
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The former police officer, Wayne Couzens, who raped and murdered Sarah Everard two years ago, has admitted three counts of indecent exposure, one of which happened just four days before he kidnapped and killed Sarah Everard. Now academics and criminologists are calling for a change in the way indecent exposure is seen – saying we need to stop the p…
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Nell Mescal, Professor Hazel Smith, Jean MacKenzie, Fern Brady, Claer Barratt, Stella Creasy MP, Lauren Moss
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Nell Mescal is a singer songwriter from Ireland who writes Indie Folk songs. She’s a rising star whose featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, has been named as an artist to watch by NME and is preparing for a summer of live gigs. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about what inspires her songs, being a young woman in the music industry and performs her …
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A Bite-Sized Bit of Sunshine: Melissa Ben-Ishay of Baked by Melissa
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Who knew that a mutual love of the Grateful Dead could ignite the start of a cupcake empire? When Melissa Ben-Ishay made tie dye cupcakes for a fellow fan and friend, her colorful creations quickly became the dessert of choice in her circle. At her brother’s urging, Melissa started baking mini cupcakes to order, and 15 years later the direct-to-con…
