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Woman's Hour

Extreme fussy eating, Pay, Off the Rails

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As BBC journalist Carrie Gracie prepares to release her new book, Equal, about her yearlong battle for equal pay, we discuss the impact this case has had on equal pay for all. Have these high-profile cases inspired employees, employers and policymakers to take action? Sam Smethers from the Fawcett Society, Charles Cotton from the CIPD and Paula Lee from Leigh Day Solicitors join Jenni.

Now for the final part in our series Off The Rails. We’ve been following the work of South London youth worker Nequela whose personal experience of getting into trouble and prison helps her reach troubled teens. Jo Morris met her one Thursday afternoon when she was getting things ready for the evening's senior youth club.

Experts are warning about the risks of extreme fussy eating after a teenager developed permanent sight loss after living on a diet of chips and crisps. When does fussy eating become a danger to health? And how can parents distinguish between regular fussy eating in children, and the psychological condition of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder – ARFID? Jenni speaks to Dr Victoria Aldridge, Senior Lecturer in Psychology who conducts research into ARFID, Dr Lucy Serpell, Clinical Lead for Eating Disorders at North East London NHS Foundation Trust and associate professor of Psychology of Eating Disorders at UCL and Clare Thornton-Wood, dietician and spokesperson of the British Dietetic Association.

Presenter: Jenni Murray

Interviewed guests: Sam Smethers, Chief Executive, Fawcett Society Charles Cotton, Senior Reward and Performance advisor, CIPD Paula Lee, Associate Solicitor, Leigh Day Jo Morris, reporter Nequela, youth worker Dr Victoria Aldridge, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, De Montford University Dr Lucy Serpell, Clinical Lead for Eating Disorders at North East London NHS Foundation Trust and associate professor of Psychology of Eating Disorders at UCL Clare Thornton-Wood, dietician and spokesperson of the British Dietetic Association

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Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the podcast for Women's

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for Wednesday the 4th of September. In today's program as a teenage boy loses his

1:20.4

sight because he lived on chips and crisps. How dangerous is what we might describe as

1:26.4

fussy eating and how do parents distinguish what's a threat to health and what isn't. In the last of our series off the rails the youth

1:34.9

worker in a keeler with a checkered past of her own and the help she can give to

1:39.5

young people who might be following the path she took.

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Now I'm sure you remember the case of Carrie Gracie, the BBC's former China editor,

1:49.0

and the way her case highlighted a bit of a problem with men, women and equal pay within the corporation

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