Champagne, Nurses strike, Autism and motherhood
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Champagne goes with Christmas! So who are the women behind the big brands, past and present? We're talking to Françoise Peretti, Director of the Champagne Bureau UK, as well as Joanna Simon. drinks journalist.
Nurses in Northern Ireland are on strike today and over 90% of nurses there are women. They're on strike to get the same pay as colleagues in other parts of the UK and get better staffing levels. But Northern Ireland's healthcare system is in trouble and 300,000 people are waiting to see a consultant according to figures from the Department of Health. We hear from Rita Devlin from the RCN in Belfast.
We're looking at pregnancy and early motherhood if you have autism. One of our listeners got in touch explaining how hard the whole experience can be. We hear her story and then speak to Lana Grant, who's a mother of six and also has autism. She advises midwives on how to help pregnant mums with autism, like our listener.
And Part 3 of our series on Amsterdam's Red Light District.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the Woman's |
| 0:07.3 | Hour podcast for Wednesday, the 18th of December. Good morning. In today's program, the name |
| 0:17.9 | Verve Clico gives a hint of the woman behind the famous champagne brand. Verve in French |
| 0:23.9 | is Widow and she's not alone. Why were so many champagne's founded by a widow? Pregnancy |
| 0:31.5 | and the early days of being a mother for women on the autistic spectrum. How will understood |
| 0:37.4 | other needs of mother and child? And in Amsterdam, the mayor proposes clothing brothels and |
| 0:44.0 | ending street window displays in the city's red light district. What will be the impact |
| 0:49.5 | on the women who work there? Now, as you may have heard in the news, nurses in Northern |
| 0:55.4 | Ireland are taking part in a 12-hour strike today. It's the first time members of the |
| 1:00.5 | Royal College of Nursing have taken part in industrial action in the college's 103-year |
| 1:06.2 | history. They're arguing for pay parity with the rest of the UK and for their staffing |
| 1:12.1 | levels to be improved. Well, during this week's discussions about bringing the Stormont Parliament |
| 1:18.0 | back into operation, the DUP leader, Arlene Foster, made the NHS a priority. I also hope |
| 1:25.3 | that we see a willingness to deal with what is the largest issue facing us at this present |
| 1:30.2 | moment in time. And that, of course, is our health service, the fact that we have the |
| 1:33.9 | largest wedding list per head of population in the United Kingdom, over 300,000 people |
| 1:39.6 | sitting on a wedding list. And we need to deal with that and we need to deal with it urgently. |
| 1:45.1 | Well, the nurses in Northern Ireland, 91% of whom are women, worked strictly to their |
| 1:50.7 | contracts earlier in December, but this is the first time they will participate in a full |
| 1:56.2 | strike, doing no work at all. Richard Evelyn is the professional lead for nursing in Northern |
| 2:02.0 | Ireland and she joins us from Belfast. Rita, why an actual strike for the first time ever? |
| 2:09.6 | Morning, Jenny. The reason that the RCN went out and asked members to vote for industrial |
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