Disabled children and exercise, Women escaping domestic abuse, and 'rent farming', Whistler's Woman in White

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today Woman's Hour has an exclusive investigation into the women who have survived domestic violence but are being exploited a second time by ‘rent farming’. These women, trapped in what is known as 'exempt accommodation' after fleeing abuse, say they often come out more traumatised than when they moved in. We reveal the legal loopholes which allow landlords to receive higher - enhanced - housing benefit, which they're meant to spend on wrap around support to get tenants' lives back on track. But many don’t and are accused of financially ‘gaming the system’. Later this week the Royal Academy is opening an exhibition called Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan. Very little is known about Joanna, she was an Irish model who became Whistler’s confidante and muse for at least two decades. But Professor Margaret MacDonald from Glasgow University, who is the curator of the exhibition, has been trawling through the archives for decades, to find out all she can about her; shining a light on Joanna's partnership with Whistler and the iconic paintings she inspired. Last week the UK's Chief Medical Officers published their first ever guidelines on physical activity for disabled children and young people. They suggest 20 minutes of exercise per day and balance activities 3 times a week. An infographic of the advice was created with the help of disabled children and their families. We speak to two mums, Tina and Carly, about the importance of the advice and how their sons were involved in the making of the infographic. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Nicole Jacobs Interviewed Guest: Professor Margaret MacDonald

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.2	Good morning, welcome to the programme. We find ourselves at a Monday again and with
0:14.9	today's news that the Prime Minister is due to set out his plans to scrap all remaining
0:18.6	COVID legal restrictions in England, including that requirement to isolate, you may feel like
0:24.0	crying, tears of joy or worry, but crying in our relationship with it is a complex one,
0:30.6	especially as women. And the classicist Mary Bid has been exploring whether you can
0:34.7	cry on demand with the actor Emma Thompson and perhaps it's the first class that the
0:39.3	university professor has failed. You will hear our conversation shortly, but it got me
0:43.8	thinking about your relationship, our relationship with crying, are you a cryer? Do those tears
0:49.3	just brim at the slightest thing? Perhaps a bit of music? Perhaps just something quite
0:53.6	difficult or something that you didn't expect at all. Are you a cryer? Have you been
0:58.7	in situations where you desperately want to stop them just tipping over down your face
1:03.6	to not look like you are, I don't know, feeling a certain way when you're trying to hide
1:07.8	it? Do tell me those situations or are you someone who really has a sort of difficult relationship?
1:13.6	Maybe you need to release more with it. You're going to hear what it took from a Thompson
1:17.7	to be able to cry on demand and Mary Bid not to be able to, but what about you? Interestingly,
1:23.0	Mary says she takes men's tears more seriously because we are stereotyped as supposed to think
1:28.6	that men still, a lot of the time, are not the ones that get to cry in society. 84844,
1:34.8	that's the number you need to text me here at Women's Hour. I do recall in our conversation
1:38.6	which you'll hear shortly with Mary Bid. I think it was the notebook that I was watching
1:42.6	on a train to, to, that's my hometown of Manchester, a few years back. I hadn't ever seen
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