Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Comedian Hajar J Woodland, how often to wash your laundry?

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Women in prison are resorting to self-harm because of “astonishing gaps” in basic services including strict time limits when contacting their children, according to a new report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales released today. The report's author Sandra Fieldhouse joins Anita Rani, as does the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood.

Singer and stand-up comedian Hajar J Woodland joins Anita to discuss her show, First Love, coming to Soho Theatre in London. After being raised in a household where singing wasn't encouraged, her show explores the boundaries we put up around ourselves and what it means to finally find love and your voice.

New research has quantified for the first time how many young people have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria by GPs in England. Academics at the University of York studied a decade’s worth of NHS records and discovered a 50-fold increase in this particular diagnosis between 2011 and 2021. However each general practice will only see one or two such patients each year. Anita speaks to Professor of Health Policy Tim Doran.

The French have been told to wear the same T-shirt for five days before washing it, and sports clothing three times. It’s part of advice from the government’s Ecological Transition Agency, which is trying to get people to do less laundry to save water. So how often should we really be washing our clothes? Anita is joined by Professor Sally Bloomfield from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to tell us more.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history
0:05.5	join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet
0:11.2	Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.
0:15.3	We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,
0:19.8	there's people can't get on the housing ladder.
0:21.5	This sounds familiar.
0:23.2	And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement.
0:25.3	I love the clothes. I love the vibe.
0:27.1	Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:30.5	You're dead to me. Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:38.1	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:43.3	Good morning and welcome to Woman's Hour.
0:45.9	She was brought up to believe that singing in public was sinful, but that didn't stop Hajar Jay Woodland.
0:51.7	She'll be here to tell us about her stand-up show and we'll hear her
0:55.2	singing. There's been a 50-fold increase in the number of young people who are diagnosed
1:01.1	with gender dysphoria since 2011. We'll be discussing a new report that has for the first time
1:06.7	quantified the actual figures. And the French ecological transition agency, it's a government agency,
1:14.7	have done some handy research into clothes washing and hung out their recommendations
1:19.2	to help reduce water pollution, save water and electricity,
1:23.4	and to help our clothes last longer.
1:25.5	The recommendations include bedsheets and pyjamas should be
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