Actor Geena Davis. Sibling age gaps. Modern slavery and working rights.

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In her memoir "Dying of Politeness" the Oscar winning actor Geena_Davis talks about her roles from a housewife-turned-road warrior and an amnesiac assassin to the mother of a rodent, and the president of the United States. Plus she shares with Jessica Ceighton how she could have swapped acting for athletes and her passion for female representation. Many of you got in touch after the journalist Merope Mills voiced her anger at her 13-year-old daughter Martha's preventable death in hospital. Jessica Creighton speaks to consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Virginia Davies about some of the broader medical issues you raised - from feeling that doctors and other medical staff were sometimes arrogant and often weren’t listening to your concerns about patient care to whether there needs to be a change in hospital culture. Survivors of modern slavery could be contributing to the UK economy and helping to address skills shortages, but instead are being held back by bureaucratic red tape, that’s according to a new report by Hestia the leading provider of modern slavery support in London and the Southeast. The want for survivors to be given a temporary right to work as soon as they enter the system. We hear from a survivor "Trinny" and Alison Logier Head of Modern Slavery services about the impact this could have both for survivors and society as a whole. What's it like to be the youngest child with large age gaps between you and your siblings? And what can parents do to help ease the difficulties that might occur? Presenter Jessica Creighton Producer Beverley Purcell

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0:48.6	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, I'm Jessica Criton. Welcome to the
0:54.4	Woman's Hour podcast. Good morning and welcome to the program and what a program we have
1:00.2	for you today. A star of Hollywood will be joining me, an actor whose bold, powerful and badass,
1:06.5	as she puts it, rolls in film and TV, defined a generation. Oscar winner Gina Davis will
1:12.5	be in the studio to discuss her painfully polite upbringing, her extraordinary career,
1:17.6	and yes, that film, Thelma and Louise. Also, after such a big reaction to our interview with
1:24.4	mother Mara Pimils, whose daughter Martha died last year and whose death was found to have
1:29.1	been preventable, we'll be looking at the many issues people might experience when interacting
1:34.0	with doctors, lots of you, and I mean lots of you, got in touch to, of course, praise the
1:39.3	life-saving work that doctors do. But also to tell us about your experiences in how you
1:45.3	deal with the arrogance of some medical staff and the reluctance to listen to family members
1:50.3	when it comes to patient care. Does hospital culture need to change? Do we put doctors on
1:55.5	too high of a pedestal that prevents us from challenging them? We'll be discussing all
1:59.2	of this a bit later in the program. Also this morning, we speak to a survivor of modern
2:04.1	slavery. She'll tell us about her struggle since arriving in the UK and it comes as a charity
2:09.7	calls for survivors of modern slavery to have restrictions lifted on when they can work
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