Deborah James on bowel cancer, Maria Miller, Nitrous oxide, Sandra Newman
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Author, blogger and podcaster Deborah James on living with bowel cancer and busting taboos with her Sun column and the You Me and the Big C podcast.
Maria Miller, chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee is introducing a Ten Minute Rule Bill to outlaw discriminatory redundancies. She has cross party support for her Bill to give new protections to pregnant women and mothers on maternity leave and for six months after returning to work. So how would her plans works and how hopeful is she that they will become law?
The public need to be made aware of the dangers of nitrous oxide say nurses at the Royal College of Nursing Annual Congress. So what is nitrous oxide, what are the dangers, the legal situation and should parents be concerned?
The Heavens by Sandra Newman is a time slip novel with a mind-expanding love story, set in New York 2000 and London 1593. Sandra joins Jane to talk among other things about utopias, mental illness and daring to be disrespectful to William Shakespeare.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Deborah James Interviewed guest: Maria Miller Interviewed guest: Catherine Gamble Interviewed guest: Sandra Newman Producer; Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey, it's the Woman's Our Podcast Tuesday at the 20 podcasts. on Twitter, Deborah James, who is so brilliant at talking very publicly and quite |
| 0:55.1 | noisily about bowel cancer. So you can hear from Deborah today. Also Maria Miller, |
| 1:00.3 | chair of the Women and Equality's Committee and a Tory MP, she'll talk about how she |
| 1:05.1 | plans to stop pregnant women and women on maternity leave from losing their jobs, and as the |
| 1:11.6 | Music Festival season approaches, what you need to know if you're a parent |
| 1:15.3 | of teenagers about nitrous oxide laughing gas or noz. |
| 1:20.8 | First of all then the author, blogger and podcaster Deborah James at Bowel babe if you want to |
| 1:26.4 | follow her on social media. She talked about living with bowel cancer and busting taboos |
| 1:31.8 | about the disease with her column in the sun and her |
| 1:35.0 | successful podcast, You Me and The Big Sea. |
| 1:38.0 | I put it to Deborah that she was a taboo buster, |
| 1:40.0 | so why does she tackle subjects that others just don't want to get close to? |
| 1:44.8 | I think there's a need for it and that's exactly why I want to talk about topics that people |
| 1:50.2 | don't feel very comfortable talking about because let's face it that's the only |
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