Women in One
Listen to audio snapshots of women of all ages and backgrounds as they answer personal questions about their life, love, childhood and fears and confess what makes them tick. ‘Women in One’ is a series of short interviews with the strangers reporter Abigail Hollick bumps into all over the UK.
“I’m actually working out here for 35 pence”
Working to make ends meet when unemployment & staying at home makes more financial sense.
“I feel like giving up every day”
Finishing University as the oldest student when you have been out of school for 23 years.
“My Aunt became my guardian after my Mum died”
Coping with the death of a parent and learning not to bottle feelings up.
“I’m about to move to Australia tomorrow”
Emigrating to Australia and loving living in limbo.
“I used to dance traditional Mexican dance”
Moving from Mexico to Glasgow to be with her husband and wanting a baby.
“I’ve been housebound and bedridden”
Life with ME, struggling to get a diagnosis and coping with unbearable pain.
“I felt fat or I felt ugly”
Deciding women should be allowed to express anger and show their emotions.
“I’ve always been the one that has taken a slightly different path”
Coping with the pressure to settle down and have kids.
“I’m doing a sign language class”
Wanting to teach children with learning difficulties and behavioural problems.
“Last year I lost my husband”
Moving from India to Scotland and coping with loneliness and missing her husband.
“Sometimes white people are favoured more than the black person is”
Growing up in Zimbabwe and fighting for women’s rights and children’s rights.
“She is the reason I get up”
Loving her ten year old daughter and growing up with her customers at the bakery.
“8 years ago I stopped drinking”
Growing up in Australia, learning to be a good Mum and giving up alcohol.
“It kind of made me a feminist”
Growing up in India and dealing with a difficult Father.
‘I don’t want her to grow up and think there is a difference between us and other races’
Trying to bring up children with values, morals and empathy.
‘They’ve just began to start talking again: 20 years later’
Illness and time brings parents back on speaking terms.
‘I’d just forgotten what it was like to be out in nature’
Escaping to the country to release new creativity.
‘It’s a great place to be Planet Earth’
A 50/50 life expectancy leads to an optimism about life.
‘We had a lot of mickey taken out of us, calling us “foreigners go home”’
Escaping the Hungarian Revolution and coping with local nicknames.
‘I’d had a brain haemorrhage at the main artery at the back of my brain’
Brain trauma leads to a new perspective.
‘I have kissed a lot of Princes but I got a frog now’
Owning a business keeps you going when your prince charming disappears.
‘They killed everything we had in the Foot and Mouth’
Surviving an epidemic and rebuilding a family farming business.
‘Our mother was never meant to be a mother’
Growing up with a mother who yearned for the single life.
‘I’ve got two grandchildren and they don’t want to know me’
Dealing with estrangement and a recipe for 55 years of happy marriage.
