Arrest of stalked woman, Endometriosis, Ageism at work, Egg donation
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Student Jodie Morrow talks to Nuala McGovern about her ordeal of being arrested after her stalker falsely accused her of stalking him. He has now been jailed after pleading guilty to harassment and perverting the course of justice, and the Police Service of Northern Ireland has acknowledged "shortcomings" in how the case was handled. Jodie is now helping the police to try to improve how they handle stalking cases.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Endometriosis is launching an Inquiry into endometriosis and the workplace. The inquiry follows the latest data from Endometriosis UK showing it takes on average nine years and four months for diagnosis of endometriosis in the UK, a statistic that hasn’t improved in over a decade. Labour MP Kirsteen Sullivan, who chairs the inquiry, and Bethan Allen, who has the condition, discuss how this can be improved and what employers should do to support sufferers.
If you’re in your 50s and feeling as though the workplace is quietly moving on without you, overlooked or pushed out, you’re not alone. Author Lucy Standing argues that this could in fact be the most powerful decade of your working life, if you rethink how a career should look. And Eleanor Mills, who runs a website for midlife women, or “Queenagers” as she calls them, argues this period of life is not about decline, but about being on the cusp of something transformative.
Each year egg donation enables between 2,000 and 3,000 women to have children who otherwise wouldn’t be able to. One woman, Gini Bhogal, helped someone in this way after donating her eggs to a woman she met randomly on a London Tube. It began on a crowded carriage in the early 90s, and when she spoke about it on social media she says the reaction was overwhelming. Gini and Christopher, the child born from that donation, explain how he came to be conceived and how he found out about his origins.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Melanie Abbott
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| 0:28.3 | and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, this is |
| 0:34.9 | Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. Hello and welcome to the program. Hello, this is Neula McGovern and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. Hello and welcome to |
| 0:40.8 | the program. Well, in a moment, Jodie Morrow, who reported being stalked, but instead was arrested for |
| 0:46.9 | being a stalker in Northern Ireland. The police there have now apologised. We're going to hear |
| 0:51.8 | her story. Also today, there are millions of tube journeys |
| 0:55.3 | in London every day, but one random conversation with a stranger changed a number of lives |
| 1:01.2 | forever. We're going to hear from the donor who gave her eggs to a woman who just happened |
| 1:07.6 | to be seated beside her. We're also going to hear from the man who is the result of that conversation. |
| 1:14.0 | We have the Labour MP, Kirstein-Sullivan, |
| 1:16.1 | who is leading an inquiry into the chronic illness endometriosis. |
| 1:20.3 | The inquiry wants to understand the challenges of managing endometriosis at work, |
| 1:25.2 | so we'll talk about that, and staying with work, are you over 50? |
| 1:29.2 | Is your age an advantage or a disadvantage when it comes to the world of work? |
| 1:34.8 | I put a bet you have some thoughts on that. |
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