Hormonal contraception, Ghost children, Narcissism, Mabel Constanduros

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Taking any type of hormonal contraception could increase your risk of getting breast cancer, according to a new study by the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Oxford Population Health, which is part of the University of Oxford. It’s one of the first big studies into this type of birth control assessing the risk of breast cancer. But headlines like this will be alarming, so, what do we need to know and do? Dr Charlotte Porter, Vice President of Speciality at the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Karis Betts, Senior Health Information Manager at Cancer Research UK talk to Anita. More than 140,000 schoolchildren in England were officially "severely absent" in the summer term of 2022, according to official Department of Education figures, and the number of these pupils, missing at least 50% of classes, is growing. So what can be done about it, and how can the individual contributions of headteachers and teachers make a difference? Anita is joined by Caroline Walker a headteacher in Barrow and Alice Wilcock, Head of Education for The Centre for Social Justice. What are the traits of a narcissistic mother? In the second of a Woman's Hour series, 'Narcissistic Mothers,' reporter Ena Miller meets 'Louise' and talks to her about her late mother. Louise's sister 'Charlotte' thinks their mother was a narcissist, but 'Louise' isn't so sure. Mabel Constanduros was a trailblazing female broadcaster and comedian on BBC Radio in the early days of the corporation. She created the sitcom as a genre and brought soap operas to the UK. So why has history forgotten her? Anita Rani speaks to Mabel’s great-great nephew Jack Shillito and the academic Jennifer Purcell. Presenter: Anita Rani Studio manager: Duncan Hannant

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Good morning, welcome
0:11.2	to the programme. We were contacted by a listener, Jack Shilato, who wanted to tell us about
0:15.8	a family member he discovered while sticking around in his history during lockdown.
0:20.9	His great, great, anti-mable, who as it turns out, here's the Woman's Hour connection, worked
0:25.8	here at the BBC in the 1920s and was quite a trailblazer. Well, we'll be hearing about
0:30.9	Mabel later in the programme. But I'd also like to hear from you this morning, have you
0:36.4	unearthed any interesting characters from your own family tree? Was there anyone intrepid
0:42.1	or a rule breaker, a game changer, someone who did things a little differently, or maybe
0:47.2	you discovered something about a family member you had no idea about. Any poets, artists
0:53.1	or spies, any scoundrels, rap scallions of persons of ill repute, or the pioneers, innovators,
1:00.1	or campaigners in your family. Tell me all about them. You can get in touch in the usual
1:04.8	way. The text number 84844, you can contact us via social media. It's at BBC Woman's
1:10.3	Hour. You can email us through the website or you can WhatsApp or voice note me on O370-100444.
1:18.6	I discovered, whilst making my who do you think you are, that my maternal grandfather
1:22.8	had written a memoir and his writing was beautiful, thoughtful and poetic, which was quite remarkable
1:29.8	for an Indian man, or indeed any man of the World War II generation. And as you can imagine,
1:34.3	it absolutely delighted me. So tell me about the remarkable people from your own family tree,
1:40.2	that text number once again, 84844. Also on the programme, we'll be discussing ghost children,
1:46.4	the children who are severely absent from school, meaning they're spending more time
1:50.5	out of school than in it. The figures have shot up post-pandemic. We'll look into why this
1:55.4	is happening and what can be done about it. Plus the second part of our series about narcissistic
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