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Woman's Hour: Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Dr Lin Berwick, Women in the 1921 Census

06/01/2022

Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Dr Lin Berwick, Women in the 1921 Census

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Dr Lin Berwick, Women in the 1921 Census

The Derry Girls actor Jamie-Lee O'Donnell on her new show about prison officers.

Jamie-Lee O’Donnell is best known for playing the wise cracking Michelle in Channel 4’s Derry Girls, the comedy series about a group of teenagers growing up in 1990's Northern Ireland. Jamie-Lee has swapped the school uniform for a prison uniform for new drama Screw on Channel 4, about working in a men’s prison.

This time last year shocking footage coming from Washington DC, as supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building, captured the world's attention. Two women, who were part of that riot, were among the people who died.  The event in America is now simply known as January the Sixth. Helen Lewis, writer for the Atlantic Magazine joins Emma to discuss the the significance of the event a year on.

The Pope has come under fire by some and been supported by others for comments during his weekly general audience at the Vatican in which he lamented that some married couples opt to remain childless and instead transfer their love to cats, dogs and other animals.  We get your views and those of Cathy Adams, a maternal ambivalence blogger.

Dr Lin Berwick MBE has cerebral palsy quadriplegia and became totally blind at the age of 15. She also has partial hearing loss and is a permanent wheelchair user.  She wasn't expected to live past her teens and has needed care 24/7 all her life.  Now in her seventies, she has been a fierce advocate and ambassador for people with disabilities and their carers, and has written a new book On A Count of Three all about what it's like having a carer - and what she thinks carers should know. 

Today sees the unveiling of the 1921 census records.  Details of the census are always kept secret for 100 years, apart from broad statistics.   This census for the first time includes details of divorce and also where people worked.  Melanie Abbott reports and Emma speaks to Dr Michala Hulme, a social historian and genealogist from the University of Birmingham.

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