Fiona Hill, Baby loss, Why do we lie?

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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As the Ukraine conflict rages on, questions have arisen over what the endgame is for Russian President Vladimir Putin. There have been continued reports of rape and violence being used against Ukrainian civilians by Russian soldiers. Durham-born Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, has been a foreign policy adviser for three United States Presidents. Seen as one of the foremost experts on Russia, she joins Krupa live in the studio to talk about the invasion and what happens next. The footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodriguez have announced the death of their baby boy at birth. The couple were expecting twins. Their baby girl survived. Clea Harmer is CEO of the charity Sands, she joined Krupa alongside Katie Harris, who lost one of her twin daughters, Abikara, during pregnancy. Women live longer than men in the UK but new analysis shows that life expectancy for women living in the poorest 10 percent of areas in England is lower than overall life expectancy in any OECD country except Mexico. Figures from 2019 show that millions of women living in the most deprived areas of England can expect to live 78.7 years compared to 86.4 in England’s wealthiest areas. Jo Bibby is from The Health Foundation and Alice Wiseman is the Director of Public Health in Gateshead. Why do we lie? Do men and women lie differently? In her new book The Social Superpower, Kathleen Wyatt looks at lies from many perspectives and reveals her own history of lying. The latest in our series Threads about the emotional resonance of old clothes. Listener Helen tells the story of the skirt she made from bits of curtain and old dresses to go to the Reading Festival in 1973. Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.1	Hello I'm Crupper Bati and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.5	Hello welcome to the programme after what I hope was a wonderful Easter weekend.
0:15.6	Many of you will have seen the news shared by the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo about the death
0:20.7	of his newborn son, the baby's twin sister, Subite.
0:24.0	Speaking out on social media, the Manchester United player said that for him and his partner,
0:29.3	Georgina Rodriguez, it is I quote, the greatest pain that any parents can feel,
0:34.5	only the birth of our baby girl gives us the strength to live in this moment with some hope and happiness.
0:40.9	There is no right or wrong way to grieve the passing of a baby.
0:45.2	For myself, tomorrow marks nine years since my beautiful little girl, Elora died shortly after her
0:50.8	birth, and no doubt hearing the news of the loss of a newborn will bring back difficult memories
0:56.0	for some of you listening. We're going to talk about this, so please, during the programme,
1:00.5	do get in touch with whatever you wish to share on this subject. Or maybe you just want to
1:06.3	remember your baby and share their name. Also, we live in a time where a changing media landscape
1:12.8	has in part given rise to fake news, disinformation and misinformation. We're going to speak to the
1:19.0	former Times journalist, Kathleen Wyatt, about her new book on lying, When and Why Do We Lie?
1:25.0	And what do you lies tell us about society? We want to hear from you about the lies you've told
1:31.0	or might still be telling, whether you're a good liar. Do you think there can be good lies and
1:36.9	bad lies? To share your experiences, please do get in touch. Text us on 844-844. You can email us via
1:44.0	our website and you can also find us on social media. We are on the handle at BBC Women's Hour.
1:50.4	And we're going to reflect on this. If you are a woman living in the richest parts of England,
1:56.0	you could expect to live almost eight years longer than a woman in the poorest parts of the country.
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