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Woman's Hour

Baroness Hale on Roe v Wade, Women missing out on state pensions; Lara Feigel, Becoming a mother when yours is dying

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The former President of the Supreme Court Baroness Brenda Hale joins Emma Barnett to give her reaction to the overturning of Roe vs Wade in the United States. She also talks about abortion law here in the UK, the upcoming barristers' strike and whether rape trials should get priority for court time. A new campaign is being launched today, exclusively on Woman’s Hour, aiming to help more women who are being underpaid their state pension. Mothers’ Missing Millions is specifically aimed at women who spent time out of paid work bringing up children, mainly in the 1980’s and 1990’s – but did not receive credits for this on their National Insurance record as they should have done. According to the Department for Work and Pensions’ annual report which came out in July, this is now ‘the second largest’ source of error on state pensions. Emma is joined by Steve Webb, the former pensions minister who now works at the corporate consulting firm LCP, which is offering a free guide to how women can fix this for themselves. Listener Hannah got in touch asking us to talk about being motherless when you’re about to become a mother yourself. In 2017 her mum was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when Hannah was 24 weeks pregnant with her first child, and she sadly passed away when her grandchild turned one. Emma speaks to Hannah, as well as consultant perinatal psychologist Julianne Boutaleb. In her new book, Look! We Have Come Through! Living with D.H. Lawrence, Lara Feigel, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London, tells the story of a pandemic year spent in the company of her partner, her two children and D.H Lawrence. Lara joins Emma to talk about D.H Lawrence and how an author can inform and change your life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.4

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

0:10.2

Good morning.

0:11.2

Welcome to the programme.

0:12.4

One of the hottest tickets around is to watch a 40-year-old woman trying not to retire

0:17.2

from tennis.

0:18.2

So reads one of the right ups of Serena Williams' stunning win at the US Open against the

0:23.2

number two seed.

0:24.7

But retire after this, she will, apparently.

0:28.2

That is what we know, but perhaps things will change.

0:31.2

This is what the 24-time Grand Slam winner wearing sparkly black and a big smile had to say

0:37.0

after her victory.

0:38.5

Honestly, I'm just looking at it as a bonus.

0:40.5

I don't have anything to prove.

0:42.2

I don't have anything to win.

0:43.9

I have absolutely nothing to lose.

0:46.4

And honestly, I never get to play like this.

0:49.2

Literally, I've had an ex on my back since 1999.

0:51.8

So it's kind of fun and just coming out and enjoying it.

0:55.0

And it's been a long time since I've been able to do that.

0:57.6

It is free.

0:58.6

You could hear that in her voice and she's talking about the way she feels she can play.

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