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Woman's Hour

Annie Lennox, Paracetamol in pregnancy, Liquid BBLs, Phubbing

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The multi award-winning singer songwriter Annie Lennox has been part of the musical landscape for almost 50 years, from her days in The Tourists, to the Eurythmics and then going solo. Now at the age of 70, Annie has brought out a book of photographs called Annie Lennox: Retrospective, and talks to Nuala McGovern about her life and career.

President Trump has said that pregnant women should avoid paracetamol because of the risks of autism and that US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe Tylenol, as paracetamol is known in the US, to pregnant women. However he didn't provide any scientific evidence for this. UK health officials have stressed that paracetamol remains the safest painkiller available to pregnant women, and Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told women to ignore Trump's comments. Nuala is joined by Dr Alex Tsompanidis, senior research associate at the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University and the BBC's Health reporter, Jim Reed.

It’s a year since the death of Alice Webb, the first woman in the UK to die from complications after a liquid Brazilian butt lift, a non-surgical procedure injecting filler into the buttocks. You don’t need to have any medical qualifications to carry out the procedure. We talk to Sasha Dean who had terrifying complications after a liquid BBL and to David Sines from the JCCP, which runs a voluntary regulator for practitioners.

Are you guilty of ‘phubbing’? It’s the process of snubbing the person you are with in person by looking at your phone. New research shows that these phone snubs can have a huge impact on relationships. Dr Claire Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southampton, tells us about her findings and Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, University College London and author of Smartphone Nation, discusses the impact parental phubbing can have on children.

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I'm Amal Rajin. Join me on my new podcast for in-depth conversations with pioneers and

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innovators, talking about the trends and ideas that could help shape and change our future.

0:21.5

We are going to be digital citizens of this AI world, whether we like it or not.

0:26.2

From declining birth rates to disinformation online, can they solve the world's biggest challenges?

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What I would love to do is go to the transfer and say radically cut the taxes of those with children.

0:37.3

Radical with me, Amal Rajin.

0:39.3

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:41.0

Hello and welcome to the programme.

0:43.0

Well, this hour, Annie Lennox, we look back at the life and career of the singer, songwriter

0:48.5

and global feminist activist through her beautiful new visual memoir retrospective.

0:55.3

Also today, a woman who underwent an injectable Brazilian buttlift, but with a terrible

1:00.7

outcome.

1:01.8

She continues to suffer to this day.

1:03.7

She's calling for an overhaul of the law around the procedure.

1:07.1

We will speak to her.

1:08.3

And we want to talk about fubbing.

1:10.7

That is phone snubbing. Are you

1:13.6

guilty of picking up your phone and giving it attention when you are with other people? Or does

1:19.6

that sort of fub really rub you up the wrong way? Maybe you've called people out for doing it.

1:25.6

Or perhaps, like potentially many of us

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