Child criminal records, Screen time, Heart valve disease

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Following the publication of Baroness Louise Casey’s highly critical report into grooming gangs involved in the sexual exploitation of children, we look at one of her 12 recommendations in detail. The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has committed to reviewing the criminal convictions of victims of child sexual exploitation, quashing the criminal records of victims who were “criminalised instead of protected”. Nuala McGovern speaks to Jade, who as a teenager was charged with a grooming offence and is trying to get that conviction overturned. Nuala also hears from Paula Harriott, the CEO of the charity Unlock.

Students will spend an average of 25 years on their phones over their lifetime. The average person in school, college or university spends five hours and 30 minutes a day on their mobile, according to a new study by the app, Fluid Focus. Last year Ofcom found that across all adult age groups, women are spending more time online – that's on smartphones, tablets and computers – than men - clocking up an extra 33 minutes more each day. Nuala speaks to Sunday Times journalist Charlotte Ivers about her phone use.

More than half of Heart Valve Disease (HVD) cases are women, yet less than half of heart valve surgeries and procedures are on women, according to new data from the charity Heart Valve Voice. Heart valve disease is when one or more of your heart valves do not work like they should. This can affect blood flow and put extra strain on the heart. How can women’s symptoms be taken more seriously? Nuala is joined by cardiologist Dr Alison Duncan and HVD patient Jaqueline, who was initially misdiagnosed with anxiety.

Three years on since the war with Russia began, more and more young women are choosing to leave the country to continue their lives in Europe, either studying or working. Young men have been banned from leaving Ukraine after they turn 18 since the war broke out and martial law was introduced, but young women are free to leave. Freelance journalist Gabriella Jozwiak has been in the city of Lviv talking to young women about their plans for the future, and joins Nuala.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	What is love?
0:03.0	Is it chemistry, fate or a disaster waiting to happen?
0:07.0	Sometimes you mistake other things for love.
0:10.0	Join me, Ryland, on my new podcast as I ask experts and a few familiar faces what love really means.
0:16.3	Because it turns out it's a bit more complicated than happily ever after.
0:20.7	You should think of it as the daily commitment you make to someone that you care about.
0:25.3	Ryland, how to be in love. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.7	Hello, this is Newell McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.
0:40.6	Hello, and welcome to the program.
0:42.8	In a moment, Jade, one of the survivors of abuse by grooming gangs that were reported on by
0:48.6	Baroness Louise Casey.
0:50.2	We're going to hear Jade's story on why she was put on the sex offenders registry
0:54.5	and also whether there may now be momentum to quash her conviction.
0:59.9	Also this hour, Molly Jong Fast.
1:01.6	Molly has written a compelling raw memoir about growing up with a famous mother,
1:06.8	one who she says was neglectful.
1:09.0	Her mother is Erica Jong, a feminist pioneer now suffering from dementia.
1:13.9	The book is beautifully written, though devastating at times, not least when discussing what one owes a neglectful parent in old age.
1:23.3	Plus, our report out this morning has forecast that if the average young person's screen time does not change drastically, they can expect to spend at least 25 years of their life on their smartphone.
1:37.5	It is quite the prediction and it made me think of my own screen time.
1:41.5	How many years have I been looking at that little glowing screen? Is this something
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