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Woman's Hour

Going braless; Em Sheldon and trolling; Continued shielding; Anne Theroux

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After more than a year of many of us working from home during the pandemic, there's been a lot of talk about the lack of requirement to put on a bra. Just this week actor Gillian Anderson announced that her relationship with bras is over. Joanna Wakefield-Scurr, Professor in Biomechanics at University of Portsmouth talks to Emma about the pros and cons of not wearing a bra.

Social media influencers who document their lifestyles receive daily online abuse which increases when they promote products and make money. Instagram influencer Em Sheldon spoke to MPs on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee yesterday about the trolling she receives which she claimed comes predominantly from adult women. Em joins Emma to discuss what should or could be done.

It’s been confirmed that from next Monday 19 July all COVID requirements, including mandatory face masks and social distancing, will be lifted in England. But for more than one million of the most vulnerable people, shielding will continue. How are women across the country planning to cope? And what difference – if any – will so-called Freedom Day bring? Lucy Catchpole is a disability writer and has two young children. Mary Slattery is a disability advocate and artist. Sarah Clarke has two teenage children with disabilities.

Why would you want to tell all about the ending of a painful marriage that happened 30 years ago? Emma speaks to Anne Theroux about her marriage to the writer Paul Theroux. She's written The Year of the End A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

0:06.8

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Fladiated.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

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

0:40.0

Hello and welcome to today's program, and as some people venture back to the office for the first time in 16 months you may need to take a mug in

0:48.7

people will be having to get dressed again properly and yet according to a new poll almost a third of

0:54.4

workers want to ditch the formal dress code preferring smart casual attire but

0:59.8

would you go as far as ditching the bra?

1:03.4

Free the boobs.

1:04.4

Cut loose from the boulderholders.

1:06.6

You know, unleash the beasts, whatever you like to call them.

1:09.5

Would you do it?

1:10.5

According to a U-Gov poll,

1:12.2

a third of women admit lockdown has been an opportunity to

1:15.5

ditch the bra with a fifth saying they now wear one much less frequently and

1:19.6

the actor Jillian Anderson she of course of X-files and the Crown fame, said she's ditching

1:24.8

her bra for good.

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