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Woman's Hour: Shobna Gulati. British Touring Car driver Jade Edwards. Playground politics. Sarah Brown.

21/09/2020

Shobna Gulati. British Touring Car driver Jade Edwards. Playground politics. Sarah Brown.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Shobna Gulati. British Touring Car driver Jade Edwards. Playground politics. Sarah Brown.

Shobna  Gulati on new book Remember Me? Discovering my mother as she lost her memory.

Shobna Gulati on caring for her mum with dementia. Jade Edwards on driving at Silverstone. Sarah Brown on the global education crisis. And how to cope with playground politics.

When actor Shobna Gulati’s mum was diagnosed with dementia in 2017, she was already spending the majority of her time caring for her.  Their sometimes difficult relationship was tested to the limit, but ultimately she gained a lot from those years spent in her mum’s front room.  When she passed away last year she decided to write a book about her family and her mum’s illness called Remember Me? Discovering my mother as she lost her memory.

At the weekend  Jade Edwards will become the first woman in 13 years to race in the British Touring Car Championship at Silverstone. So why's it taken so long to see another woman on the course? Jade joins us, along with Fiona Leggate, the last female driver who competed back in 2007.
 
Have you been given the silent treatment by another parent at school, or felt excluded from a group of mums? Now the new school year is well underway, playground politics can sometimes extend to the other side of the school gate.  Jane discusses coping strategies with counselling psychologist Dr Rachel Allan and Tanith Carey, author of The Friendship Maze and Taming the Tiger Parent. 

Because of the Covid 19 pandemic up to 10 million children around the world are likely to be permanently excluded from getting an education according to the UK charity Theirworld.  It's run by Sarah Brown, wife of the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.  Ahead of a virtual session later today at the UN General Assembly Meeting she talks to Jane about  how the charity advocates on global education issues at both a strategic and practical level .

Presenter Jane Garvey.
Producer  Beverley Purcell

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