BBC RADIO 4 Late Night Woman’s Hour with Lauren Laverne
I was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Late Night Woman’s Hour with Lauren Laverne (tx: Friday 26th Feb 2016), with veteran columnist Katharine Whitehorn, Author Madeleine Bunting, and shepherdess and mother-of-eight, Amanda Owen. Inevitably we each had a unique take on “Me Time” – what is it and what makes us yearn it? How does mindfulness shift our relationship to time?
Late Night Woman’s Hour – A Brief History of Me Time http://podtail.com/podcast/woman-s-hour/late-night-woman-s-hour-a-brief-history-of-me/ (longer version…)
The BBC Radio 4 27-minute version, Friday 26th February, 11pm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0717nwy
Do you have just too much to do? Do you live in a blur of meetings, to do lists, deadlines and appointments? Then make time to listen to Lauren Laverne and guests Katharine Whitehorn, Madeleine Bunting, Mags MacKean and Amanda Owen as they discuss the brief history of “me time”. Who invented leisure time? Who gets it? Who wants it? How much? What do women do with theirs and what should they be doing with it? Katharine Whitehorn has been a working journalist since the 1950s. She writes a regular column in The Observer. Amanda Owen has written several books about her life as a working farmer with eight children. Her most recent book is A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Mags MacKean gave up a high powered job in journalism to climb full time. Her book about how these experiences changed her is called The Upside Down Mountain. Author Madeleine Bunting’s most recent book was ‘The Plot – A biography of an English Nature’. She is currently working on a book on mindfulness. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Luke Mulhall.
The BBC Radio 4 version, Friday 26th February, 11pm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0717nwy