Dr Shazia Malik, Charlotte Regan, Female surgeons, Poison pen letters, The Knock special series
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
They say current disparities in women’s health across England mean there are far too many cases where women’s voices are not being heard. But the decision to only speak to women up to the age of 55 has provoked a backlash. Nuala McGovern is joined by consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Shazia Malik, a sub-specialist in reproductive medicine.
The film Scrapper follows 12-year-old Georgie living happily alone in a council house in London following the death of her mum. But when her absent father Jason turns up out of the blue, her world is disrupted. We talk to director Charlotte Regan about her debut feature film who says she wanted to show British working class life as something that can be joyful and fun.
A new survey shows that nearly a third of female NHS surgeons have been sexually assaulted by a colleague over the past five years. Nuala speak to Tamzin Cuming, a consultant surgeon and chair of the Women in Surgery forum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, who says it’s a #MeToo moment for surgery.
Before the age of social media, there was still plenty of trolling in written form. Emily Cockayne, author of the new book Penning Poison, joins Nuala to discuss her research into the history of poison pen letters; that is, messages sent anonymously, seemingly with the intention to unsettle the recipient. Emily has traced the stories of such missives to all corners of English society from 1760 to 1939.
We start our new series 'The Knock' which details the stories of two women whose lives were changed when they were told that a loved one had been arrested for sexual offences against children.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Tim Heffer Reporter Jo Morris
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, this is Nulam Agavern, and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | It is indeed hello and welcome to Woman's Hour, well shocking statistics from a survey |
| 0:15.2 | out this morning. |
| 0:16.2 | You might have heard them in the headlines there, nearly a third of female NHS surgeons |
| 0:20.7 | have been sexually assaulted by a colleague over the past five years. |
| 0:25.0 | I guess at times in coming a consultant surgeon says that this is a me-to-moment for surgery, |
| 0:31.9 | so we'll talk about that. |
| 0:33.4 | Also, poison pen letters. |
| 0:35.7 | Today we often talk about anonymous, upsetting messages that are sent online. |
| 0:41.3 | But how did this type of missive start? |
| 0:43.6 | And why were women so often implicated? |
| 0:46.1 | Well the historian Emily Cackein will be with us, we'll speak to her. |
| 0:50.4 | We also have the director Charlotte Regan in the Woman's Hour studio to talk about her |
| 0:53.9 | warm and wonderful debut feature film, it's called Scrapper, and we begin our series called |
| 1:01.2 | The Knock. |
| 1:02.2 | Now that is where women describe what ensued after discovering a loved one was arrested |
| 1:07.5 | for child sexual abuse. |
| 1:10.2 | And we're going to speak in just a moment about a major survey launched to track women's |
| 1:14.3 | reproductive health from periods, contraception, pregnancy and menopause. |
| 1:18.4 | But it is just for women age 16 to 55. |
| 1:21.4 | Some women over 55 are asking why were they not asked for their experiences? |
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