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Woman's Hour

Britain's secret war babies, Naomi Stadlen, Health impacts of anal sex

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mary Phillips was born to a white British mother and an African American GI father – who she never met. She was one of around two thousand mixed-race children born into white, rural communities after the second world war. She joins Emma Barnett to tell the story of how she found her four half siblings in America, decades later, and what she found out about her father. Who do Conversative-voting young women want to be their next Prime Minister? Woman's Hour can reveal new data from Ella Robertson McKay, National Chair of the Conservative Young Women group. New research shows increasing numbers of young women in the UK are suffering injuries and other health problems because of the growing popularity of anal sex among straight couples. Emma Barnett talks to one of the authors of the report, Lesley Hunt who is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and also to Claudia Estcourt, from the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. In her three books about mothering, the psychotherapist Naomi Stadlen has made visible the work, loving and teaching that mothers do. She joins Emma who herself has a much-thumbed copy of Naomi's first book 'What Mothers Do - especially when it looks like nothing'. The dating app Tinder is celebrating its tenth birthday. The launch of the app in 2012 and other digital platforms has changed how many people meet their long or short term partners. But not everyone thinks online dating has improved romance for the better. Aurora Townsend is the founder of Planet Theta and George Rawlings is co-founder of Thursday. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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

0:10.6

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:13.0

Today we have some exclusive data for you from the young female wing of the Conservative

0:16.8

Party, those with a vote and who they hope to return to number 10 to make our next Prime

0:22.9

Minister.

0:23.9

We will also be hearing from a so-called secret wartime baby about how her lifelong quest

0:29.3

to find her family if she had any in America has only recently yielded positive results

0:34.9

and she's now in her late 70s.

0:37.2

And the author of a new report in the British Medical Journal will be joining me to talk

0:40.7

about the increasing numbers of straight women engaging in anal sex and the health risks

0:46.1

associated with it.

0:47.8

But what I wanted to ask you about today was a book that made you stop, think, and perhaps

0:54.0

see the world or something on your mind completely differently.

0:57.8

Today we have the author of one of those books which may have done that for you.

1:01.3

It certainly did for me, Naomi Stadlin.

1:04.4

She's turning 80 later this year.

1:06.2

She spent 30 years listening to women when they become mothers, talked to her about their

1:11.7

experiences and then as they carry on with that particular journey.

1:16.0

Her different style of book was something that certainly spoke to me and has spoken to

1:20.0

thousands of others.

1:21.4

The first of her books was called What Mothers Do Especially When It Looks Like Nothing.

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