IVF clinic license suspended, Porn series, 'Queens' wildlife programme
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A new law will be introduced in the House of Commons at lunchtime today to clear the names of the hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted for theft and false accounting. To discuss what this means Emma Barnett is joined by Jo Hamilton, a former post sub-master who was wrongly charged with stealing £36,000 from the Hampshire village post office she ran and BBC Economics Correspondent Andy Verity.
A fertility clinic in London has recently had its license suspended over what are being called “significant concerns” about the unit. Homerton Fertility Centre says there had been three separate incidents that highlighted errors in some freezing processes - meaning some people’s embryos were lost. Emma Barnett talks to the Telegraph’s Health Editor Laura Donnelly and Dr Ippokratis Sarris from King’s Fertility.
We continue our series looking at how porn in shaping our sex and relationships today by speaking to Dr Fiona Vera-Gray. She says that when we think about porn we still mostly think about men, men as the producers and the consumers and women as the product. Her new book, Women On Porn, details the experiences of one hundred women and their views on porn and she joins Emma in the studio.
A new ground-breaking wildlife series is launching this week. National Geographic’s ‘Queens’ focuses on female-led animal societies, and shows their lives away from the usual male fights and hunts. The seven-part series was produced by a women-led team and narrated by the actress Angela Bassett. Emma talks to the series co-executive producer and writer Chloe Sarosh.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce Studio Manager: Emma Harth
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:50.0 | Good morning and welcome to the program. Today I can promise you a new look at the post office |
| 0:56.2 | scandal and why today may not be the step forward the Prime Minister hopes as a new law is introduced |
| 1:01.6 | to clear the names of the hundreds of |
| 1:03.7 | sub-postmasters wrongly convicted. We'll have the latest in the IVF scandal linked to |
| 1:08.9 | heartbreaking errors in the |
| 1:13.0 | freezing processes of some eggs and embryos |
| 1:14.0 | and a focus on matriarchies within the animal kingdom. |
| 1:17.0 | It's a varied bunch on the agenda today. |
| 1:20.0 | But today also sees the latest in our pawn series looking at how it affects and shapes our lives |
| 1:26.6 | with an author and researcher who has expressly looked at what women feel about porn |
| 1:31.0 | and how they use it or don't in their lives. One of her findings is |
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