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Woman's Hour

Harriet Walker, Elika Ashoori, Dr Henrietta Hughes, Sarah Graham, Neil Leitch, Adam Hawksbee

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

There’s a growing trend in women not wearing bras. To talk about this Nuala McGovern is joined by the Fashion Editor of The Times, Harriet Walker. She’ll talk about bra trends up to now, and why this might not be the best of them. According to reports in the Telegraph, Rishi Sunak has shelved plans to reform childcare services put forward by his predecessor, Liz Truss. The plans were looking at increasing free childcare support and changing the staff-child ratio. Nuala McGovern will be looking at what the postponing of these reforms means for parents who need childcare, as well as those working in the industry, speaking to the CEO of the Early Years Alliance Neil Leitch and the Deputy Director of UK Onward, Adam Hawksbee. In our series Finding My Voice we’re talking to women about the moment they realised they had something to say or stand up for. Elika Ashoori was an actor and baker who rarely kept up with politics. That is, until 2017 when her father, Anoosheh, was detained by the Iranian authorities while visiting his mother. Over the next 5 years, she and her family fought for his release and she was forced to go through what she calls a ‘crash course’ in human rights campaigning. We look at the "gender health gap" with the Patient Safety Commissioner for England - Dr Henrietta Hughes. . A GP by training and previously a medical director at NHS England she was appointed in July and took up the post in September. She'll be joined by the health journalist Sarah Graham who has a new book out, Rebel Bodies: A guide to the gender health gap revolution Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Bob Nettles.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Nulam Agavern and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:05.2

Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. Happy New Year to you.

0:09.1

I'm delighted to say I will be spending the coming months with you in this

0:13.5

presenters chair Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week, taking over from the

0:18.7

mighty Emma Barnett while she's on maternity leave.

0:22.5

And when I've presented Woman's Hour previously, I was struck by your generosity,

0:26.7

sharing details about your lives and also your experiences.

0:30.8

So I'm really looking forward to getting to know you and also bringing the stories

0:34.6

that matter to you to this tremendous program and onto today's program.

0:40.0

Well, you may remember in the Liz Trust era, there were promises of big bang reforms.

0:45.8

We know how some of the economic ones panned out.

0:49.0

But now there are questions about the Prime Minister potentially shelving the

0:53.2

childcare reforms that she proposed. So we're going to get into that in a moment,

0:57.5

but also Sarah Graham, she has been calling for a revolution when it comes to the

1:02.3

gender health gap. We're going to speak to Sarah about what that look like and

1:07.0

also why she thinks it's needed. Sarah has specific steps on how to advocate for

1:12.1

yourself. If you think your doctor is not listening to you and with Sarah will

1:17.6

also be Dr Henrietta Hughes. Now she was appointed the first ever

1:22.9

patient safety commissioner that is for England and that happened in July.

1:27.4

So she works as a champion for patients and also driving to improve the safety

1:32.7

of medicines and also of medical devices. So we're going to hear what progress

1:37.2

she feels she has been able to make so far.

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