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Woman's Hour

Hannah Fry, Female Bouncers, Ukrainian Refugees

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Hannah Fry is a professor in the Mathematics of Cities at UCL, a best selling author, a TV presenter and a podcaster. But in January 2021, her life changed when she found out she had cervical cancer. At just 36 years old, with two young daughters, she was faced with her own mortality. She turned to the statistics to find out what she was facing. But what she found within them shocked her. As a way of coping with the diagnosis, she started filming her treatment and has turned it into a deeply personal documentary: Making Sense of Cancer. What’s it like to be a female bouncer? With the industry saying staff shortages are impacting their ability to keep people safe, they are making plans to hire more women. Michael Kill is CEO of the Night Time Industries Association and Carla Leigh is a Door Supervisor and is setting up her own security business focusing on getting women in to the industry. Over 60 thousand Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the UK since the beginning of the war. Most of those are women and children as most men have been banned from leaving Ukraine. Anya Abdulakh is from the charity Families4Peace, which is helping newly arrived Ukrainians in London. She is working with women like Maria and Olena who both came to the UK from Kyiv in recent weeks. Anya, Maria and Olena speak to Paulette. Do you know what a tweenager is? A listener got in touch and told us she was struggling to work out how to support and understand her 11-year-old daughter. In focusing on teenagers have we neglected younger children? Dr Tara Porter is a Clinical Psychologist and she argues that the 'tween' years lay the groundwork for the teens. She joins Paulette Edwards to offer insights and advice. Presenter: Paulette Edwards Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.8

Hello, I'm Paul Etheadwoods, welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.4

Good morning and welcome to Woman's Hour.

0:11.8

So today on the show, it's just over three months since the war in Ukraine began.

0:16.7

Today we're here of Shelling in the Donbass region.

0:19.6

Since the start of the war, 14 million people are thought to have fled their homes.

0:24.8

60,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the UK.

0:28.7

Perhaps you've met some of them, maybe you're even living with them.

0:31.8

Well, most of women and children, as men, have been bound from leaving the country

0:35.8

to help with the war effort.

0:37.5

How is life in the UK for these women and their children?

0:41.4

Is there enough support for them to get on with their lives?

0:44.3

We're going to hear from two women who have arrived in the last couple of weeks.

0:48.4

And have you ever considered being a bouncer or door supervisor, as we should be calling them?

0:53.7

There's a shortage, which could be compromising the safety of particularly women

0:58.0

as they go out for a night on the tiles.

1:00.4

We're going to hear from Carla Lee.

1:01.8

She works in clubs in Swindon and says more women should consider it.

1:06.1

She changed jobs due to the pandemic.

1:08.6

And that's what I'd like to talk to you about,

1:10.4

and I'd like to hear from you on this.

1:12.6

Have you had time to reflect and thought you wanted to try something new

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