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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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The image of the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, crying in Parliament yesterday was picked up by various media. After PMQs, Ms Reeves' spokesperson said she had been dealing with a "personal matter" and Sir Keir insisted her tears had had "nothing to do with politics". Kylie Pentelow is joined by Times columnist Katy Balls and Kitty Donaldson, chief political commentator for the i Paper to discuss why her tears caused such a stir. Was it concern over political weakness and worries about political instability? Ms Reeves' very senior role in government? Or because she’s a woman and maybe people still don't understand that women cry for different reasons and in different circumstances to men?
The government’s long-awaited NHS 10-year health plan is launched today. To make the NHS in England fit for the future, the plan will focus on three big shifts: moving care from hospitals to communities, making better use of technology, and preventing sickness - not just treating it. How should the NHS prioritise women’s health to achieve better results? Kylie is joined by Ranee Thakar, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Danielle Jefferies, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund, and Lara Lewington, a technology journalist and author of a new book, Hacking Humanity.
Esther Freud’s ninth novel, My Sister and Other Lovers, revisits characters from her very first book Hideous Kinky, which was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. In My Sisters and Other Lovers, the sisters come of age and try to come to terms with their past. Esther joins Kylie to talk about her writing and how despite having such famous men in her life – her father was the painter Lucien Freud and her great-grandfather was the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud - it’s the women in her family who inspire her work.
Amy Powney is the fashion designer best known for being the Creative Director at Mother of Pearl for 10 years until she left to set up her own label, Akyn, earlier this year. Amy’s mission to create a sustainable clothing line was explored in the documentary Fashion Reimagined which saw her trace clothes from field to runway and cemented her as an authority on this within the wider industry. Amy joins Kylie in the Woman’s Hour studio.
Presenter: Kylie Pentelow Producer: Rebecca Myatt
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0:30.4 | Hello, this is Kylie Pentelow and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:35.2 | Hello and welcome to the programme. |
0:37.0 | Today, the government reveals its 10-year |
0:39.5 | plan for the NHS in England. Now, one of the main changes, neighbourhood health hubs that aim to |
0:45.9 | shift care out of hospitals and into the community. But what do you think could be done to make |
0:51.6 | the NHS better for you as a woman and what single |
0:55.3 | change would have the biggest impact for women? I want to hear from you on this. You can of course |
1:00.1 | text the programme. The number as always is 84844 and we're also on social media. We're at BBC |
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1:13.1 | message or voice note using the number 0-3700-100-444. Also coming up, do you know where the clothes |
1:22.8 | you wear came from? I don't mean which shop, but where the cotton was grown or the fabric was made. |
1:29.2 | Well, I'll be speaking to a fashion designer who's made at her mission to make us really think |
1:33.8 | about sustainable clothing. And also, Esther Freud, the author, will join me to talk about her new |
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