Fleabag, Food allergies and Feminism in the Archers

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As the second series of the comedy Fleabag comes to an end we talk about the appeal of female comedic characters. The author Erin Kelly, the TV Development Executive Danielle Dash and the Editor in Chief of Empire Magazine Terri White discuss. Katy Bourne the Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex tells us how she was stalked for five years and how this experience motivated to get her own police service inspected. The results found that Sussex police still has problems around investigating stalking cases and supporting victims. How feminist is the Archers? Academics Nicola Headlam and Cara Courage authors of, Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge: Women in the Archers, discuss. Food allergies affect 3-6% of children in the developed wold. What do parents need to know about the diagnosis and management of food allergies. We hear from Holly Shaw a nurse advisor from the charity Allergy UK and from Stephanie Hulme whose son experienced an unexpected and severe allergic reaction when he was three. Heavy bleeding or flooding can be one of the symptoms of the menopause, what can be done to help women affected? Paula Briggs a consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Southport and Ormskirk Hospital, offers some advice. Sabrina Cohen-Hatton was just 18 when she joined the fire service. She’s now a Deputy Assistant Commissioner and one of the most senior female firefighters in the UK. She tells us about her work and her book In the Heat of the Moment. The writer of the film Wild Rose, Nicole Taylor tells us why she wanted to write about a singer from Glasgow making it as a country singer in Nashville. Presented by Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor :Eleanor Garland

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. In today's program the Arches, gender, sex
0:12.1	and gossip in Ambridge. Natasha Ednan-Laparruz died as a result of eating a baguette containing
0:20.1	sesame seeds. What do parents need to know about protecting their children from food allergies?
0:27.4	Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is one of the UK's most senior firefighters in hopes. Women and girls
0:33.0	won't be put off by fire and sand and think it's only a job for a man. There are actually
0:38.8	more chief fire officers called Chris than there are women chiefs and the qualities that you need
0:44.4	to be a good firefighter aren't determined by gender. It's not about brawn, it's about being
0:51.6	calm under pressure, it's about seeing the bigger picture. The debilitating flood that can accompany
0:59.1	the perimenopause. Why does it happen and what treatment might be available? Nicole Taylor is the
1:06.3	writer of the film Wild Rose and it was a love of country music that inspired her. I discovered it
1:12.8	by having a lot of insomnia as a teenager and watching BBC 2 in the middle of the night when
1:17.6	they showed the CMA Awards, the country music awards, and Mary Chape and Carpenter were singing
1:22.0	he thinks he'll keep her. It just blew me away. I couldn't believe that a song could cover that
1:26.8	kind of material, you know, a woman in her marriage that had gone stagnant and her hopes and dreams
1:31.5	and her frustrations and starting over in like three and a half minutes. And at the end of a week
1:37.1	that saw two great TV series come to an end, what is it about the dairy girls and flea bag
1:44.0	flawed and funny that has such appeal. Now you may have seen some disturbing stories in this week's
1:51.8	papers about stalking. There was the murder of Shana Grice who was killed by her former boyfriend
1:57.9	even though she had reported him to the police in Sussex for stalking her five times in six months.
2:05.4	The Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katie Bourne had commissioned a report published on Wednesday
2:12.1	which concluded that stalking investigations were not as thorough as they could be and victims
2:18.0	of harassment were not properly protected. Well Katie Bourne has been the commissioner there for seven
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