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Woman's Hour: Nigel Slater, Woman's Hour Corona Diaries, 'County lines' drug gangs

24/04/2020

Nigel Slater, Woman's Hour Corona Diaries, 'County lines' drug gangs

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Nigel Slater, Woman's Hour Corona Diaries, 'County lines' drug gangs

How is the lockdown altering the way Nigel Slater thinks about food?

How is the lockdown altering the way Nigel Slater thinks about food? The Woman's Hour Corona Diaries with Elaine and her 91 year old aunt Olive.

Food writer and cook Nigel Slater says that one of his great joys in life is going out to shop for ingredients, but how has that changed during lockdown? What is he yearning for that he can’t get, and how is it altering the way he thinks about food? His most recent book is Greenfeast.

Hope High is a new BBC Sounds podcast, which takes listeners inside an area in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire that is fighting to protect children from being groomed by county lines drug gangs. The presenter and producer Annabel Deas spent a year finding out how young children are tricked into selling drugs, and why some are removed from their families, and placed in care for their own protection.

Elaine Hall from Bath has been telephoning her 91-year-old aunt Olive, who’s blind, since the beginning of lockdown. But what started as a general daily catch up has blossomed into a joyous conversation including stories, literary discussions and games of Just a Minute. Elaine and Olive talk to Jenni for the Woman’s Hour Corona Diaries.

The writer Holly Watt's new book, The Dead Line, follows investigative journalist Casey Benedict on the trail of a surrogacy racket - involving a Harley Street doctor, a British Ambassador, and a Bangladeshi camp. Holly, who is also an investigative journalist, joins Jenni to talk about the inspiration behind the story. 

The writer and broadcaster Sali Hughes has been talking to women about objects in their lives that are important to them. We hear from the comedy actress Margaret Cabourn-Smith about her snow globe.

Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Dianne McGregor

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