Body hair, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out, UK ambassador to Ukraine, Actor Ruth Wilson, Kinship care, Duvets

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

TV shows go to huge lengths with their sets, costumes and wigs to make you feel like you’re looking back at the past but why – given hair removal is a fairly modern development – is body hair so rarely seen? We hear from historian Dr Marissa C Rhodes. After Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe expressed her opinions at a press conference this week, 'ungrateful' started trending online. Reaction from Gina Miller who took the government to court and won over how it tried to implemented Brexit without approval from Parliament and Emily Thornberry a former shadow foreign secretary. Best known for The Affair and Luther, and more recently playing her own grandmother in a BBC drama, actor Ruth Wilson on her two latest roles – on the London stage in The Human Voice and on screen in True Things. Melinda Simmons on her role as the British Ambassador to Ukraine. She left Ukraine on 7th March 2022 eleven days after the Russian invasion and is now in Poland. Woman’s Hour understands that the Independent Review of Social Care in England is set to recommend that there should be a renewed focus on alternatives to care with a major focus on kinship care. The Chief Executive of the charity Kinship, Dr Lucy Peake, and kinship carer Meyrem discuss. Journalist Sally Peck on the joys of swapping one duvet for two in the bed with her husband. Presenter: Chloe Tilley Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly, welcome to Woman's Air from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.4	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.
0:11.6	On the programme today, we hear from the UK's ambassador to Ukraine, who's now in Poland,
0:16.8	and the value of kinship care.
0:18.6	We hear one woman's story of taking in her sister's three young children.
0:23.6	The actor Ruth Wilson on her latest work and shares her views on egg freezing and why
0:28.2	marriage isn't for her.
0:30.4	With Bridgerton returning to our screens, one historian laments why there is no body
0:34.8	hair in period drama.
0:37.2	For most of history in most times and in most places, ordinary women would have had
0:41.9	underarm hair and light hair.
0:43.4	I really think that period appropriate body hair wouldn't really turn people off.
0:50.3	I don't think we give viewers enough credit and I think most people would say, oh, I never
0:54.4	thought of that.
0:55.4	I suppose women would never move their underarm hair.
0:58.2	And the big question, single or double duvets when sleeping with your partner.
1:03.8	This week, Nazanine Zagari Rangcliffe faced a room full of journalists and cameras.
1:08.5	She knew what she wanted to say and what she didn't want to say after six years away
1:12.7	from home.
1:14.0	She didn't want to talk about her experience in prison, her guards or what solitary confinement
1:19.0	was like.
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