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Woman's Hour

Alison Rodgers, Dan Scorer, Ros Coward, Anita Anand, Sarah Class, Tracey Cox, Dr Tristram Wyatt

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a social media user you may well be familiar with the concept of vabbing – vaginal dabbing – where you use vaginal fluid as a perfume behind the ears and neck. Proponents claim it acts as an aphrodisiac to would-be lovers by spreading pheromones. Emma Barnett talks to sex expert Tracey Cox and the evolutionary biologist Dr Tristram Hunt. Have you tried it? Does it work? And is it sanitary? Adam Downs is one of 15 people with learning disabilities who is in a high security hospital. He is currently at Rampton Secure Hospital with serial killers, murderers and paedophiles even though he has never been convicted of an offence. Ex-patients include Charles Bronson, Ian Huntley and Stephen Griffiths. His mother Alison Rodgers and Dan Scorer from the learning disability charity Mencap talk to us about their campaign for him to be cared for in the community. They say at least 2000 people with learning disabilities and or autism are currently being detained in inpatient hospital units in England and the Government is not reaching the targets they set. It’s almost 25 years since Diana Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in Paris. She once famously said “being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be” so what is the life of a princess in the modern royal family and how are our perceptions of that role influences by fiction and culture. Emma Barnett talks to Anita Anand the presenter of the Radio 4 series “Princess” which looks at famous historical and fictional princesses and also to writer and journalist Ros Coward who’s co-authored a new book “Diana: Remembering the Princess” Award winning musician Sarah Class who has composed and produced the music for the series ‘BBC Africa’ narrated by Sir David Attenborough, plays live in the studio ahead of her appearance at the Earth Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 27th August, as part of the BBC Proms series. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.3

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

0:11.2

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:13.7

Both Russia and China's authorities are reaching for levers of the state in a bid to boost

0:18.9

the number of children born.

0:20.4

I don't know if you've seen these two separate stories, but I wanted to bring them to your

0:23.0

attention because they're doing it in different ways and for differing reasons.

0:28.0

In Russia, President Putin has revived a Soviet era award for women who have 10 or more

0:34.0

children.

0:35.0

They will be awarded the Mother Heroine Gold Medal, decorated with the Russian flag and

0:38.6

the country's coat of arms, and awarded a one-off payment of £1 million, which equates

0:44.0

to around £13,500.

0:46.8

After their 10th child has reached its first birthday and on the condition, the other nine

0:51.5

children are still alive.

0:53.7

It's been launched as Russia faces a demographic crisis that's been made worse by the casualties

0:57.7

from the war in Ukraine and also people choosing to leave the country.

1:03.1

News from China today reveals that the country's health authorities are clamping down on abortions

1:08.4

which are, quote, not medically necessary to tackle its plunging birth rate, amid concerns

1:14.0

about an untenable ageing population.

1:17.6

What is your reaction when you hear of such state interventions when it comes to women's

1:22.0

bodies, women's choices, autonomy, families, how they're formed, the flexing of the state

1:27.8

muscle to try and influence procreation in this way?

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