Hadley Freeman, Toni Crews, Christmas appeal

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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We talk to the journalist Hadley Freeman about why she resigned as a columnist at The Guardian newspaper after 22 years in the job. She has accused the publication of “censoring” discussion about gender identity and says she was discouraged from writing about antisemitism. Emma Barnett speaks to Hadley about her concerns and plans for the future. We speak to the parents of Toni Crews, a young mother who died from a rare form of eye cancer back in 2020. Her parents Jo and Jason Crews talk to Woman’s Hour about her life and her decision to waive her anonymity and donate her body to medical science, she is first person in the UK to have done this. Also talking about this ground breaking moment for medical science is Professor Claire Smith who led the team behind the dissection which is shown as part of a documentary that goes out tonight. It's Radio 4’s Christmas Appeal Week. For 96 years, BBC Radio and St Martin-in-the-Fields have been in partnership to raise funds for people who are homeless and urgently need support around the UK. In the last two years, the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal has raised over £9 million for St Martin-in-the-Fields and The Connection at St Martin's benefits from these funds, which help run their resource centre in central London, providing shelter, food, help and advice. This year, the Women’s Development Unit at The Connection has created the first ever census of women who were sleeping rough across London. I’m joined by Eleanor Greenhalgh, the Manager of the Women’s Development Unit & Pam Orchard, CEO of The Connection at St Martins who can share their data exclusively with Woman’s Hour. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello, I'm Felicity Finch. You may know me as Ruth in the arches. I have something important
0:10.7	to ask you before you listen to your podcast. This Christmas, thousands of people across
0:16.7	the UK will be without a safe place to call home, but you can help change that. A gift to
0:23.4	the Radio 4 Christmas appeal with St Martin in the Fields can help people find a home, by
0:29.0	providing a much needed deposit or paying for rent in advance. Everything starts with
0:35.0	home, and this Christmas home starts with you. Please support the Radio 4 Christmas
0:41.4	appeal by donating online on the Radio 4 Christmas appeal website. When times are so difficult
0:47.4	for so many, thank you for helping people to restart their lives with a home. Now enjoy
0:54.1	your podcast.
0:56.2	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. As the end of year
1:01.5	approaches, and people through various streaming services take stock of the songs and albums
1:06.1	they've relied on most in the past 12 months, I wanted to give you the chance to share
1:11.1	yours and tell me why. What song or maybe album have you reached for? What have you relied
1:16.6	upon? And why? What's it given to you? My choice seems to have been fitting in with the
1:22.6	apparent post-pandemic research and dance music, which is reflected in today's BBC Radio
1:27.4	1's short list for Sound of 2023, which tips new music for the coming year. Previously,
1:33.5	the list has predicted the success of Adele and Stormzie to name a couple. So if you want
1:37.7	to stay current, go and have a look at that and see who's on the list today. But when
1:42.5	you're thinking about your music choices, perhaps if you are using streaming services,
1:46.0	you might be nowhere near those sorts of services, but if you are, maybe you've also seen
1:49.8	your children corrupt or pollute your playlist, a decent blast of blur or faithless then interrupted
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