Actor Tamsin Greig. Pregnant women and the booster jab. Volunteering. Miss World at 70.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Actor Tamsin Greig on her latest role as the legendary agent Peggy Ramsay.
The Prime Minister has announced that all over 18s in England are being offered a Covid-19 booster vaccination. But as he sets out this new target has that message reached pregnant women? Emma talks to Dr Viki Male a Reproductive Immunologist based at Imperial College London
Tens of thousands of volunteers are needed to come forward to support the NHS booster campaign. Do you plan to volunteer? What are the benefits of volunteering?
And as Miss World celebrates being 70, we hear from women who protested against it in the 1970's.
Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell
PHOTO CREDIT; Shaun Webb.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:39.6 | Good morning and welcome to the program. |
| 0:42.2 | Your country needs you. |
| 0:43.0 | That's the message from the Prime Minister last night |
| 0:45.0 | as he appealed for an army of volunteers |
| 0:47.0 | to deliver COVID-jabs around the clock |
| 0:49.0 | and help steer people towards these pop-up centres |
| 0:52.0 | across the country. |
| 0:53.4 | Boris Johnson has said thousands of volunteers are needed to come forward and help deliver the |
| 0:57.7 | booster shot in the arm before Christmas. |
| 1:00.3 | These roles include staffing pop-up centers and other vaccination sites and we're going to provide more detail shortly |
| 1:06.2 | But do you volunteer might you for this? Why do you do it? Whatever you do? What do you get out of it? Normally 70% of volunteers are women, but in |
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