{"id":50216,"date":"2024-02-02T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nearfm.ie\/podcast\/?p=50216"},"modified":"2024-02-02T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:15:22","slug":"seven-stages-for-seven-ages-episode-1-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=50216","title":{"rendered":"Seven Stages for Seven Ages &#8211; episode 1 &#8211; Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7785\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7785','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=50216-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sevenstages1.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 45:00 &#8212; 103.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50218\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nearfm.ie\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7-ages-ep-1-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50218\" src=\"https:\/\/nearfm.ie\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7-ages-ep-1-a-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edith Chukwu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shakespeare covered the seven stages of life better than most in a speech called\u00a0<em>The Seven Ages of Man<\/em>\u00a0in a play called\u00a0<em>As You Like It<\/em>.\u00a0 Shakespeare\u2019s speech was all about boys and men, but our series is all about girls and women. Join us on our seven-week journey through the ages stopping off at all the stages from child to teenager, from mother to grandmother, from work to retirement, from multitasker to multi-talented, from social commentator to mould breaker, and everything in between. Starts on Friday Feb 2nd at 3.30pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50217\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nearfm.ie\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7-ages-ep-1-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50217 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nearfm.ie\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7-ages-ep-1-b-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niamh Hand (L), and Jennifer Prater (R)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Episode 1<\/strong> is all about birth. Listen to our experienced and not so experienced mothers, as they talk about the challenges of bringing home a new baby and coping with the early childhood years, helped along the way with poetry and song about the wonders of birth and the magic of those early years. Is it scary?\u00a0 Is it exhausting? Is it the hardest job ever?\u00a0 Edith Chukwu, Niamh Hand, and Jennifer Prater will generously share their hopes and fears with us. You will hear singing from Abimbola Olorire and Thomas McCarthy, and poetry from Jimmy O\u2019Connell, Mary Oyediran, Michael J Whelan and Berni Dwan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Series developed and produced by Berni Dwan. Audio production by Declan McGlade<\/p>\n<p>Made with the support of the Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n\u2019s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare covered the seven stages of life better than most in a speech called\u00a0The Seven Ages of Man\u00a0in a play called\u00a0As You Like It.\u00a0 Shakespeare\u2019s speech was all about boys and men, but our series is all about girls and women. Join us on our seven-week journey through the ages stopping off at all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7786\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7786','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=50216-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/sevenstages1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sevenstages1.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 45:00 &#8212; 103.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seven-stages-for-seven-ages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}