Glenda Jackson, Coronavirus & Advice for Pregnant Women
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We consider the latest advice for pregnant women when it comes to coronavirus. Jane speaks to Jess Brammer, editor in chief HuffPost UK, who is currently on maternity leave and Dr Mary Ross-Davie - Director for Scotland, Royal College of Midwives. And in other coronavirus news: many offices, shops, bars, restaurants, schools, are likely to close. Many workers and businesses will see their income collapse, almost overnight. So what if you are laid off? What if you are self-employed? What financial decisions should you be making? What support could you be entitled to?
Glenda Jackson plays the poet, writer and critic Edith Sitwell in Radio 4 drama Edith Sitwell in Scarborough. She joins Jane to discuss Edith, as well as being on grandma duty and what books she would recommend during a period of isolation. The Scottish Government is currently consulting on a Bill to reform the Gender Recognition Act. Jane talks to Rhona Hotchkiss, former governor of Cornton Vale prison in Stirling and signatory of SNP women’s pledge and James Morton, Manager of the Scottish Trans Alliance about concerns for protecting trans rights and women’s rights and how any Scottish legislation will sit with the UK Equality Act 2010. Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Dr Mary Ross-Davie Interviewed guest: Jess Brammer Interviewed guest: Jasmine Birtles Interviewed guest: Glenda Jackson Interviewed guest: Rhona Hotchkiss Interviewed guest: James Morton Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey and thank you for downloading the Woman's Hour podcast from Tuesday, |
| 0:09.6 | the 17th of March 2020. Good morning to you. I hope you're feeling reasonably well this morning. |
| 0:14.9 | We're here for you. We want your involvement, your questions. We want really you to tell us |
| 0:20.2 | what we need to be telling you. That's what we're all about. So at BBC Woman's Hour on Twitter and |
| 0:26.0 | Instagram, you can email us via the website. We've got the finance journalist Jasmine |
| 0:30.5 | Bertels with us this morning. Jasmine, good to see you. We'll be asking you some questions. |
| 0:34.9 | If you have any questions for Jasmine and I know a lot of people are feeling to put it mildly |
| 0:39.3 | concerned about their financial status at the moment. At BBC Woman's Hour, I've got Twitter |
| 0:45.1 | open here in front of me. I can see it. You can get involved. I know Jasmine won't know the answer |
| 0:49.5 | to everything, but we're really interested in what is worrying you and she'll do her very best. |
| 0:54.4 | We're also going to talk to Glenda Jackson, who tells me that her family has put her on lockdown. |
| 1:00.2 | So we'll hear from Glenda in a moment or two as well. But we are going to start with pregnancy, |
| 1:04.8 | what it's like to be pregnant right now. We do know from the advice yesterday that people need to |
| 1:10.7 | minimise their social contact if they're over 70 regardless of their state of health. |
| 1:15.9 | And the Prime Minister yesterday also said that applies to anybody with significant health |
| 1:21.3 | conditions so they don't fuel the epidemic, don't go to hospital and don't catch the virus. |
| 1:27.0 | And now at that press conference yesterday, pregnant women were also referenced. So here's Chris |
| 1:31.9 | Whitty, the chief medical adviser to the British government. And also as a precautionary measure |
| 1:37.9 | because we are early in our understanding of this virus and we want to be sure women who are |
| 1:42.8 | pregnant. And those three groups are the groups we want to take particular care to minimise their |
| 1:49.2 | social contact, which will of course we'll have very significant risks for them. |
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