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How to help your child spot fake news online

How to help your child spot fake news online

FromWoman's Hour


How to help your child spot fake news online

FromWoman's Hour

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Aug 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How can you help your children to identify fake news on the internet? With the explosion of different platforms it can be hard to keep tabs on what they are watching. Jane finds out from the editor of 'The Week Junior', Anna Bassi, and Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck, the founder of 'Lie Detectors', an award-winning news literacy project which empowers schoolchildren to identify propaganda and distorted facts online. Matt Hancock announced on 30 July that we should move towards more ‘zoom medicine’, but how does this impact women and women’s health issues? We speak to Dr Clare Gerada who advocates for a mixed approach - she believes patients should always be given the choice between a face to face or online appointmentOver the next two weeks we are talking to women about their scars. They all talk about physical and emotional pain, and the business of having to deal with other people’s reactions on a day-to-day basis. And they speak of coming to terms with the skin they are in. Ena Miller went to meet 49 year old Jayne in Shropshire and heard her story. Journalist Emma John is also a classical trained musician who’d fallen out of love with her violin. A chance trip to the American south introduces her to bluegrass music. It feels like a homecoming. Emma gives up her job and undertakes a musical quest into the Appalachian mountains. The result a book: Wayfaring Stranger: A musical Journey in the American South. Emma talks to Jane about the breakthroughs and difficulties of her musical journeyPresenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Kirsty StarkeyInterviewed Guest: Dr Clare Gerada
Interviewed Guest: Anna Bassi
Interviewed Guest: Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck
Interviewed Guest: Jayne
Reporter: Ena Miller
Interviewed Guest: Emma John
Released:
Aug 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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