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Woman's Hour

04/05/2022

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As Anne Robinson announces she's stepping down as the host of the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown, Emma Barnett catches up with her. Robinson was the first female to ever host the show, with 265 episodes under her belt since she joined just a year ago. After a career as a national newspaper journalist, she found fame in 2000 hosting the BBC quiz show The Weakest Link. Her acerbic wit led to her becoming labelled the “Queen of Mean”. For months now the apparent increasing shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has caused uproar, igniting debates in Parliament and triggering the appointment of an HRT tsar. A Channel 4 documentary earlier this week on the subject also talked about the use of testosterone to help with some menopausal symptoms. Dr Paula Briggs, Chair Elect of British Menopause Society and Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health at Liverpool Women’s Hospital discusses her concerns and unpicks the potential impact of using testosterone. The homelessness charity Shelter has found that nearly 230,000 private renters in England have been served with a formal no-fault eviction notice, known as a 'Section 21 eviction' in the last three years, since the Government first committed to scrap this form of eviction in April 2019. The charity has also found that while women and men are equally served these kinds of evictions by their landlords, they impact women more. Shelter is calling for the government to ban these kinds of evictions. Its Chief Executive Polly Neate joins Emma as does Lily, who was served a no-fault eviction notice in January 2022. Do you grow flowers in your garden? Have you ever thought about specifically growing flowers like you’d grow vegetables - in rows so you could pick them in order to have flowers for your home? It's a trend which has grown over the past 10 years amongst gardeners. Growing your own flowers means you can enjoy seasonal bouquets at a fraction of the cost of shop-bought blooms. Emma finds out more from Milli Proust, writer and floral designer in West Sussex , whose book Seed to Bloom is out in June, and Georgie Newbery - a flower farmer and founder of Common Farm Flowers in Somerset. Increasing numbers of women are reporting problems after having thread lift treatments, often known as “lunchtime facelifts”. Save Face, a national register of accredited practitioners of non-surgical cosmetic treatments, which campaigns to improve safety standards, says the number of complaints about the treatments by unregulated practitioners have more than doubled in the past year. Emma talks to its Director Ashton Collins. Presenter - Emma Barnett Producer - Alison Carter

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.6

Good morning and welcome to the programme and we start today's programme with a woman

0:14.7

who doesn't mince her words and Robinson. A former newspaper journalist she made the

0:18.8

headlines herself yesterday after stepping down from hosting Channel 4's countdown after

0:23.7

a year, making way as she put it for an older woman to take the reins. And the first woman

0:28.9

to regularly host the popular show also said she hopes her stint helped TV bosses realise

0:33.2

that not all women her age are in care homes playing bingo. But her reason for stepping

0:38.3

down caught my eye and that's what I wanted to ask you about today. She said, I have

0:42.7

grandchildren, a large garden, a home in New York, all deserving more of my attention.

0:47.6

Let me ask you this then. What if you quit and why and what did you do with that time?

0:54.2

Was it more time in the garden with the family a new project? Do let me know today I'd

0:58.5

love to hear from you. You can text me here at Woman's Hour on 84844. Also how did you

1:02.8

quit? There's some brilliant quissing stories. How have you resigned? What were your best

1:07.3

lines? What was a good moment? How did it feel? Let me know, don't hold back, you never

1:11.5

do. On social media we're at BBC Woman's Hour or you can email me through the Woman's Hour

1:16.2

website. Also on today's programme, as the BBC finds that potentially abusive men are

1:22.2

using the homes for Ukraine housing scheme to contact vulnerable Ukrainian women, I'll

1:27.2

be joined by Polly Neat, the chief executive of Shelter, the homelessness charity and

1:31.7

of course the former chief executive of Women's Aid. And what is the truth about menopause

1:36.6

or women using testosterone? Of course, as the HRT shortage and supply issues are in the

1:42.8

news most days now and a lot of you are living with that will try to get to the bottom of

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