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Woman's Hour

Annie Lord, Menovests, Roe v Wade, The Fellowship

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

How do you heal and get through a break up? Annie Lord is Vogue’s dating columnist. She joins Emma Barnett to talk about her debut book, Notes on Heartbreak. A candid exploration of the best and worst of love, she talks about nursing a broken heart and her own attempts to move on in the current dating climate; from disastrous rebound sex to sending ill-advised nudes, stalking your ex’s new girlfriend and the sharp indignity of being ghosted. The overturning by the US Supreme Court of the landmark Roe v Wade ruling has prompted many of you to get in touch to share your reactions and experiences. One listener, Nicola, wanted to tell us about her mum - who died after having a legal termination that should have been safe, in 1968. Closer to home there's been a high-level summit about buffer zones at abortion clinics. Emma speaks to Scotland's Green MSP, Gillian Mackay, who has drawn up a members bill which aims to introduce protest-free buffer zones around clinics. And what does the law in the UK say about a woman’s right to an abortion? We hear from Professor Fiona De Londras, the Chair of Global Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School. The senior backbench Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith and some of his fellow MPs were given the opportunity this week to find out first hand exactly how uncomfortable a menopausal hot flush can be, especially when you’re in the workplace. As part of an event raising awareness around the country’s shortage of HRT, Sir Iain and some his colleagues from both sides of the House of Commons, tried out a so-called MenoVest, a special piece of clothing fitted with heat pads, to simulate the extreme discomfort which many menopausal women have to live with. Emma speaks to Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Lesley Salem, who had the idea to create the vest. The Fellowship is a play which looks at the children of the Windrush generation and the relationship between Marcia and Dawn, two black sisters struggling to take care of their dying mother whilst juggling their turbulent personal lives. Emma speaks to Director Paulette Randall and actor Suzette Llewellyn, who plays Marcia.

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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

0:10.2

Good morning, welcome to the programme.

0:12.2

On today's programme we will continue to monitor the reaction to the overturning of Roe

0:16.6

V Wade in America, the constitutional right to abortion, but look at it from the point

0:21.5

of view of what's going on in the UK, closer to home and we will also hear from one of

0:27.0

you our listeners who contacted the programme with a very personal story she's never told

0:31.7

on this sort of public platform before about her mother, all that to come.

0:36.5

And there'll be a take on Boris Johnson's comments that the invasion of Ukraine was an example

0:41.0

of toxic masculinity that would never have happened if Putin was a woman.

0:46.1

Plus Vogue's Agony Ant is joining us today with some crucial advice about breakups.

0:51.7

But Sir Ian Duncan Smith, the former leader of the Conservatives party in our senior

0:55.4

backbencher, is also on the programme today, having tried out something called a Menovest

1:01.2

in Westminster.

1:02.7

This is a vest which heats up quickly that men put on, I mean women can try them on as

1:06.8

well, but men are putting on to empathise with women going through the menopause in the

1:11.8

workplace.

1:12.8

He's going to describe your hear how it made him feel.

1:15.4

It was actually quite different to how he thought and what insight it's given him that

1:19.9

perhaps he didn't have before.

1:22.2

And I wanted to ask you if you are going through menopause at the moment, if you are presenting

1:26.7

with symptoms or if you have already been through it, of course you could imagine how

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