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Woman's Hour: Victoria Wood, Frozen eggs, How to raise a kind child

19/10/2020

Victoria Wood, Frozen eggs, How to raise a kind child

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Victoria Wood, Frozen eggs, How to raise a kind child

Jasper Rees on the much loved comedian, writer, actor, stand up and singer, Victoria Wood.

Jasper Rees on the much loved comedian, writer, actor, stand up and singer, Victoria Wood. How much is the surge in inquiries about egg freezing due to the pandemic?

Victoria Wood, the Lancashire born comedian, writer, actor, stand up and singer found fame with shows such as Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Wood & Walters and Dinner Ladies. She died in 2016 having never written her own story. With access to letters, and interviews with friends and family Jasper Rees has written ‘Let’s Do it’ – The Authorized Biography of Victoria Wood. 
Mairead Campbell works at BBC Radio 1 and turned 30 last year. She made a documentary for BBC Radio Ulster about the fact that friends and family suddenly started asking when she’s going to settle down and how that made her feel. 
Recently fertility clinics across the UK claimed they have seen a surge in inquiries about egg freezing. Professor of Reproductive Biology, Mary Herbert, joins Jane to discuss what may have prompted that rise. 
How do you raise a kind and empathetic child with a social conscience? We speak to Uju Asika, author of Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World; and Miranda McKearney, founder of the Empathy Lab, a not-for-profit dedicated to teaching children empathy through fiction.
Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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