Diane Morgan, Clinic Investigation, Divorce

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The actor, writer and comedian Diane Morgan. She started her career as a stand-up but you may know her best as the ill-informed interviewer Philomena Cunk, or laid back Liz in the parenting sitcom Motherland, or even Kath in Ricky’s Gervais series After Life. She’s also written, directed and starred in her own comedy series Mandy about a woman who's got big dreams but can’t be bothered to do the work to get there, and whose short lived jobs are a disaster. Now she's in Inside Number 9 on BBC 2. Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a clinic in Belfast which claims to help infertile couples have a baby. The police investigation follows a BBC Northern Ireland documentary called The Babymaker Uncovered. The clinic is called Logan Wellbeing and Medical and is run by Ruth Ellen Logan who claims that she was trained in America. She's been offering treatments like massage and reflexology, as well a IV drips and vitamin injections. Women who are desperate for a child, including some who are medically menopausal, have spent thousands. We speak to reporter, Jennifer O’Leary and fertility expert Professor Alison Murdoch. In the second part of our new series on divorce, our reporter Henrietta Harrison meets Amina who talks about the impact it's had not just on her but on her parents too. And we talk to Kate Jayden who's completed 100 marathons in 100 days. She was raising money for charity and describes what kept her putting one foot in front of the other.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly, welcome to Woman's Air from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.3	Hello and welcome to the programme, good to have you with us on this good Friday.
0:13.3	Now for some couples wanting to start a family, fertility treatment becomes part of the journey
0:18.7	with people investing a lot of time, a lot of money and hope in the process.
0:23.3	We'll bring you a BBC Northern Ireland investigation that's uncovered a practice
0:27.2	which has charged thousands of pounds, promised success and administered drugs
0:31.9	that aren't designed for fertility treatment from a woman with no medical qualifications.
0:37.3	We'll also be talking about the fact that wanting ten teachers
0:39.9	are being forced to take a second job to make ends meet
0:43.1	and some are turning to food banks according to the Teachers Union, the NASUWT.
0:47.7	We'll be speaking to a teacher who lives with her parents because she can't afford rent.
0:52.4	We'll also bring you the next instalment of our series on life after divorce,
0:56.4	following the introduction of the no fault divorce.
0:58.6	One woman tells us the impact it's had not just on herself but also her parents
1:03.4	but also how she's got fitter as a result.
1:05.8	And the hilarious Diane Morgan is going to be here with me in the studio,
1:09.4	the actor and comedian from Motherland and Afterlife is in a new series of the BBC's Inside Number 9.
1:16.2	And I'll also be catching up with the ultra marathon runner
1:18.9	who's just broken the world record for running 100 marathons in 100 days.
1:24.2	Kate Jaden wanted to raise money for refugee charities and she's run the distance
1:28.1	which is the equivalent from Aleppo in Syria to here in the UK.
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