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Woman's Hour

Jules Montague on diagnosis, Abortion in the US, A scratch and sniff T-shirt, Disabled children in Ukraine

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In former consultant neurologist Jules Montague's new book, The Imaginary Patient, she looks at how they can be influenced by many external factors. Who gets to choose which conditions are "real" or not, and is that a helpful question to ask? And what implications does that have for women? She joins Emma. Michael Gove, The Levelling Up Secretary, confirmed that there will be no emergency budget to help with the cost of living, even though the Queens Speech yesterday said that the Government would help. New research says that an estimated 1 and a half million households in the UK will struggle to pay food and energy bills over the next year. Sarah Pennells is a Consumer Finance Specialist at the Pensions Provider Royal London and has been gathering data on this. How are disabled children being affected by the war in Ukraine? There are claims that thousands have been forgotten and abandoned in institutions unable to look after them. The human rights organisation, Disability Rights International, has carried out an investigation. Their Ukraine Office Director, Halyna Kurylo joins Emma. It’s been just over a week since the the publication of a leaked draft document from the Supreme Court, which suggests Justices are set to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade, ruling, which gave women in American an absolute right to an abortion. To discuss what this means for women in America Emma is joined by Associate Professor Emma Long and State Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke. There'll be no emergency budget to help with the cost of living, even though the Queens Speech yesterday said that the Government would help. That's been confirmed by Michael Gove, The Levelling Up Secretary, this morning. We've been celebrating the emotional power of old clothes in our series Threads. Zoe, who was known as 'strawberry girl' on her small university campus in Liverpool tells us about her 'scratch-and-sniff' t-shirt.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.9

Far from Wagartha Christie, the high court liable battle between Rebecca Vardy and

0:16.7

Colleen Rooney over who said what to whom, which could cost £3 million, there is a cost

0:22.2

of living crisis.

0:23.8

And the question of how this government is going to respond to it.

0:27.5

Presenting the government this morning on the interviews round was leveling up Secretary

0:30.9

Michael Gove who has ruled out an emergency budget after criticism of their not being enough

0:36.1

to help those struggling in yesterday's Queen's speech.

0:40.0

We know women are typically paid less than men, and according to the Living Wage Foundation

0:44.5

campaign, almost 60% of all jobs paid below the living wage are held by women.

0:50.5

There is also a difference between how much women are reporting their levels of worry

0:54.4

about rising prices versus men. For instance, a recent study from Royal London, a pensions

0:59.6

provider, found 40% of women are very or extremely worried about the rising cost of food compared

1:06.0

to 26% of men.

1:08.7

What Mr Gove did say this morning was that the government will be saying more and doing

1:12.8

more to help people.

1:14.8

So what should or could that be from your perspective, from your view, and tell me what

1:20.7

you're thinking about this at this moment? I want to try and capture a sense of what you

1:24.4

think the government's response could be or should be. 84844, that's the number you

1:29.5

need to text me here at Women's Artets will be charged at your standard message rate.

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