Ballerinas & Babies, Working From Home Safely, Delayed Smear Tests
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Some top British ballerinas have become new mums during lock-down. In fact, there are so many in the Royal Ballet that they've created a Whatsapp group. We know that being a ballet dancer is competitive and careers can be short, so has lock-down given the chance to get pregnant? Lauren Cuthbertson, is principal of The Royal Ballet and had her baby a few weeks ago, and Tara-Brigitte Bhavnani, first artist of The Royal Ballet, is due in April.
There’s been a surge in calls to domestic abuse services. As so many of us are working from home at the moment the Business Minister has written to employers urging them to be a be supportive as they can be, and that means helping victims of abuse in the home. We hear from Paul Scully.
When it comes to the Covid vaccine, research from the University of Glasgow indicates that BAME communities are much less likely to get the vaccine if or when it's offered. Reasons include language barriers and misinformation. We hear from Dr Zubaida Haque, as well as children speaking various different languages to persuade their grans and granddads to get the jab.
The Welsh Labour MP, Alex Davies-Jones, says she was left without the majority of her cervix because she delayed getting a smear test. She wants to tell other women not to make the same mistake. According to the Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, the MP Caroline Nokes, more then six hundred thousand women could miss their routine smear tests during the pandemic.
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| 0:34.4 | Hello, it's Emma here with today's episode of the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | Do hope you get something from it. |
| 0:40.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:41.2 | On today's program we'll be talking to the business minister about the government's |
| 0:44.2 | advice to employers to monitor their employees' home life for signs of domestic abuse. |
| 0:49.8 | How feasible that is we'll be discussing and what you make of it do let us know on 84844 |
| 0:55.3 | but after as I'll be joined by two of our top ballerinas with the royal ballet to talk about |
| 0:59.7 | something which I'm sure you also have a story on No, not your dancing skills, although you can |
| 1:04.2 | share those please feel free. But things that perhaps a lockdown life has let you do. |
| 1:08.8 | How much maybe a more restricted existence has perhaps freed you up to do certain things you usually feel or claim you're too busy to do, |
| 1:18.0 | how it's liberated you. For these two professional dancers and others that they know, |
| 1:22.0 | it's meant the patter of tiny feet, |
| 1:24.8 | as they felt they could step off the stage and allow their bodies the chance to fall pregnant. |
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