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Woman's Hour

Girl Bands, Period Tracking Apps, Couples Therapy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

After Little Mix said goodbye to their fans with their final show on Saturday before going on hiatus, it seems that for the first time in decades, Britain is without a major girl band. Emma is joined by Melanie Chisholm from the Spice Girls and music journalist, Jacqueline Springer. We discuss recent work from home data with Dr Jane Parry, Associate Professor of work and employment at Southampton Business school and Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff. In the wake of the tragic killings of toddlers Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo Hughes, a government report is expected to be published shortly looking into what went wrong. Social workers had failed to act on warnings from relatives, which meant the children were not removed from their abusive homes. But a BBC One Panorama explores a different perspective - what about when children’s services intervene too far, too fast – and when they act unethically, even unlawfully towards children and their parents, causing lifelong trauma in the process? One local authority in Herefordshire has been severely and repeatedly criticised by a high court judge for breaching children’s human rights through what the judge called “appalling” social work practice. Woman’s Hour talks to Panorama Reporter Louise Tickle about her investigation. Women in the US have been raising concerns about period and pregnancy tracking apps on phones. BBC Technology reporter Shiona McCallum and Jillian York from the American digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, join Emma to discuss. Relationships for many of us are just downright fascinating. Susanna Abse is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and joins Emma to discuss her new book. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

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

0:10.0

Good morning and welcome to the programme. Here we go again, another week.

0:14.0

And if you have an office-based job, are you back in at the office or you at home or perhaps

0:19.4

a bit of both? Over the weekend, in an interview with the Daily Mail

0:22.7

headlined Working From Home doesn't work, the Prime Minister had this to say,

0:27.5

My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup

0:31.2

of coffee and then you know getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge,

0:35.0

hacking off a small piece of cheese and then walking very slowly back to your laptop

0:38.8

and then forgetting what it was you're doing.

0:41.8

Boris Johnson's on a mission to reverse what looks like a permanent mindset shift

0:45.8

in the UK according to data analysis in the financial times today,

0:50.0

numbers are getting too short. There was a big response to what the Prime Minister

0:54.0

had to say with his take about working from home with many women in particular

0:58.5

talking about their experiences online over the weekend and sharing mainly on social media

1:04.0

but also people writing about their experiences too.

1:07.2

I want to give you the opportunity today on the programme to say where you are with this

1:10.8

if it affects you. Of course, this is mainly about office jobs.

1:14.8

Whether you have gone back in, whether you haven't, are you doing a bit of both?

1:18.6

Have you been forced to go back in as it was before?

1:21.4

And perhaps that's made you think differently about whether it's better,

1:24.6

whether it's not what works.

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