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Woman's Hour: Young Carers, Elizabeth Strout, Matilda McCrear

Lockdown Gender Stats, Elizabeth Strout, Matilda McCrear

Young Carers, Elizabeth Strout, Matilda McCrear

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Young Carers, Elizabeth Strout, Matilda McCrear

The programme that offers a female perspective on the world

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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