Arundhati Roy, Returning to work, Treatment after smears
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 with The God of Small Things. It was followed up twenty years later with Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Now she has just published My Seditious Heart, a collection of political essays written in the two decades between those novels. She had a lot of praise for the essays but also a lot of criticism for challenging subjects like the acquisition of land, environmental degradation, government elites and the impact on the poorest and most marginalised people in India.
How easy has it been for you to get back into work after a long time away? Did you apply for hundreds of jobs before getting one? Were you able to return to what you wanted to do? We hear from two women who struggled. They are Tontschy Gerig and Emma Land.
A cervical cancer charity says we don’t always know that treatments for abnormal smear tests can have side effects. Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust says some women experience bleeding, pain and even lose interest in sex after going for follow up procedures. They conducted a small survey and found that 1 in 5 women said that no one discussed side effects with them.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey and welcome to the Women's Out Podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | It's Monday, the 10th of June 2019. |
| 0:41.0 | On the podcast today, you can hear from the brilliant Indian writer Aaron Datti Roy. |
| 0:46.3 | We also look at treatment after you've had an abnormal smear test result. |
| 0:51.9 | What happens is the right information imparted to |
| 0:54.8 | individuals in the most helpful way? It would seem not necessarily and there's some |
| 1:01.1 | interesting, interesting contributions to that conversation on the podcast today. |
| 1:05.6 | What else? |
| 1:06.6 | There's at least one other item I should have mentioned and I haven't. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh yes, we look back as well to the football, Scotland against England in both the team's opening game of the |
| 1:16.3 | FIFA Women's World Cup which was yesterday evening. |
| 1:19.7 | First of all we had a conversation about getting back into the workplace if you've been at home for a relatively |
| 1:25.2 | long period of time. |
| 1:26.6 | Perhaps you have caring responsibilities. |
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