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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Are you excessively tired with your hair falling out, nails always breaking, brain often foggy or sometimes, despite having youth on your side, maybe forgetting how to form a sentence? These are amongst the symptoms of iron deficiency, often underdiagnosed. Nuala McGovern will be speaking to Dr Sue Pavord, Consultant Haematologist and President of the British Society for Haematology, and freelance journalist Rose Stokes.
The Royal College of Pathologists say that a shortage of consultants means that "1 in 5 families are now waiting 6 months or more, and some longer than 12 months" for post mortems. The 'paediatric and perinatal pathology workforce' report said there were no paediatric or perinatal pathology consultants in the South West, the Midlands or Northern Ireland. Dr Clair Evans, the chair of the college’s advisory committee - a Consultant Paediatric and Perinatal pathologist explains the situation further. At lunchtime on Wednesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, will unveil her much anticipated second budget. How could this budget affect the lives of women in 2026? We’re joined by the BBC’s Cost of Living correspondent Colletta Smith, to talk us through what we might see in the red briefcase on Wednesday.
A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo has just sold for $55 million in New York. It is the highest price ever paid for a work by a female artist. To illustrate the magnitude of the difference, a painting by Klimt was also sold recently for $236m. Professor Renee Adams is a professor of finance at Oxford Saïd business school and researches the role of gender in the art market, where women’s works generally achieve much lower values. She explains why and what needs to change.
As part of the BBC 2 Civilisations series, tonight’s programme looks at the rise and fall of the Aztec Empire and the part that a young woman played in its demise. She was called Malintzin and acted as translator at the momentous first meeting in 1519 between Montezuma, the ruler of the vast Aztec Empire, and the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. To find out more about Malintzin and her role in Mexican history and culture Nuala is joined by Dr Elizabeth Baquedano, from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and Dr Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada from the University of Oxford.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty Starkey
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| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it. |
| 0:13.3 | But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go? |
| 0:19.2 | I remember having this very sharp thought that what you do right now, this is it. |
| 0:24.3 | This defines your life. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm ready to talk and ready to listen. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this. |
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| 0:37.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, this is |
| 0:39.6 | Newla McGovern and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. Good morning. Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:45.3 | programme. Well, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is centre stage this week and on most of the front pages this morning |
| 0:51.1 | as she gets ready to deliver her second budget, |
| 0:56.3 | we're going to take a look at what is expected. |
| 1:00.5 | And in particular, any proposals that would affect women. |
| 1:03.0 | So the Chancellor has a busy week ahead. |
| 1:04.3 | Perhaps you do too. |
| 1:06.4 | And I'm wondering how you're feeling this morning, |
| 1:09.0 | full of beans or a bit sluggish? |
| 1:29.7 | Well, we're going to discuss whether an iron deficiency could be to blame for when people feel tired all the time. And I'm really talking about women of a reproductive age. It is more common that you think. We will talk about that. We're also going to hear about the woman who helped the Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire in modern day Mexico. |
| 1:33.4 | There is a debate that continues around her to this day. |
| 1:35.4 | I learned a lot. I think you will too. |
| 1:44.6 | And staying with Mexico, did you see that a painting by Frida Kahlo sold for over £41 million. |
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