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Woman's Hour

Ella Jarmulska, Dr Caitlin Dean, Nicola Cutcher, Professor Marian Knight, Rose Gallagher, Threads, Marion Lees McPherson

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Emma Barnett speaks to Ella Jarmulska a Polish entrepreneur who wants to provide safer car rides to families fleeing the war in Ukraine. Displaced and disoriented, often with no idea where to go next, refugees are forced to put their trust in strangers. Trafficking rings are notoriously active in Ukraine and neighbouring countries in peace time. The fog of war is perfect cover to increase business. Today sees the launch of a new campaign which calls for health professionals, the media, retailers and the public to ditch the term ‘morning sickness’ and refer to ‘pregnancy sickness’ instead. We talk to Dr Caitlin Dean, a nurse specialist in this area and to the co-founder, of the ‘Not Morning Sickness’ campaign Nicola Cutcher. As the end of free testing draws near, we talk to Rose Gallagher from the Royal College of Nurses about who will pay for Covid tests for staff in the NHS. We’ll also consider the latest Government statistics which show just over half of pregnant women in England have had at least one covid jab with Professor Marian Knight the head of national surveillance of Covid hospitalisation in pregnancy. In our series Threads we've been talking to listeners about the clothes they've hung on to. They'll never end up in the charity shop bag, they hold powerful emotions. Dorothy sent us a photo of a beautiful dress she wore age 14 at a barn dance in Hereford - happy memories. And Marion Lees McPherson from the Society of Women Organists tells us how they're taking on the inequality of the ecclesiastical organ scene with men represent 90 per cent of permanent directors of music and organists in English and Welsh cathedrals. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Engineer: John Boland

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.4

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.3

Good morning, welcome to the programme.

0:12.4

One of my guests today told her husband she was just going out for a quick bit of shopping,

0:16.8

but ended up driving 250 miles away to the Polish border and returning with a car full of

0:21.8

women and children refugees.

0:24.4

L.A.R. Mulska, a Polish entrepreneur, now runs a very new programme, indeed, called Women Take

0:29.9

the Wheel Initiative in Poland, where she lives and, of course, where she's now doing these

0:34.9

drives.

0:35.9

And a bit to encourage more women, not just men, to be at the Polish-Ukrainian border

0:40.3

to help those fleeing to safety.

0:42.4

It's now been five weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine and Ella describes what she did as

0:48.0

a spontaneous action.

0:50.2

What have you been able to do in response to the reality Ukrainians are now facing?

0:55.0

If anything, have you talked about it and not been sure what to do or if there is anything

0:59.7

to do, or perhaps you found yourself wanting to do things but you're not in a position

1:03.7

to do anything at the moment?

1:05.7

Of course, if you are one of the 150,000 members of the public who have been able to offer

1:10.5

accommodation to refugees in this country, a story in today's timesmaids makes for

1:15.3

dispiriting readings, say the least, citing home office sources, the paper reports fewer than

1:20.3

one in ten applications to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in British homes have been approved,

1:25.9

fewer than one in ten.

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