Being the 'other' mother, CMV
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and this is the Woman's Hour podcast Tuesday, the 3rd of September, |
| 0:10.5 | 2019. |
| 0:11.5 | Today, the pediatrician who has a mission to help children born with hearing loss. |
| 0:16.4 | She wants to do something about a very common virus called CMV. |
| 0:20.4 | It was new to me, and you can hear all about that on the podcast today. |
| 0:24.0 | Or chat to the comedian Jen Brister, who's had twins with her female partner, and there's |
| 0:28.1 | more from Jen at the end of this podcast as well. |
| 0:31.7 | But we start today with politics. |
| 0:33.9 | Where else can we start? |
| 0:34.9 | Really? |
| 0:35.9 | MPs are going back to Westminster this afternoon, that's Tuesday afternoon. |
| 0:40.4 | Now in the most simple terms imaginable, the Prime Minister says he doesn't want another |
| 0:44.2 | general election, but he will be, quote, forced to have one if MPs block a no-deal Brexit. |
| 0:51.4 | Boris Johnson has said he will not put off Brexit under any circumstances, and indeed he's |
| 0:56.1 | taking it to the wire. |
| 0:57.1 | He's threatening to expel conservative rebels from the party. |
| 1:01.1 | So we chewed the fact this morning in the company of Katie Balls, the deputy political editor |
| 1:05.3 | of the spectator, and Helen Lewis, who is now a staff writer at the Atlantic. |
| 1:11.2 | I put to them that it all seems a bit testosterone-driven all this, and I asked Katie whether she |
| 1:17.1 | would say that was true. |
| 1:19.1 | I mean, I wouldn't use those exact words, no, definitely, in a gamer chicken. |
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