Kitty Ruskin's year of casual sex, The Girls of Slender Means, ARFID
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ten Men, A Year of Casual Sex is a new book from the author Kitty Ruskin. It follows a year of her life when she attempts to embody Samantha from Sex and the City and enjoy all the advantages of being young, free and single. As she details 10 men in 10 chapters, the stories range from sexy and funny to at times deeply confronting and violent, including rape. Kitty joins Krupa Padhy to discuss.
Today, the government has accepted an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill they say could be a big step forward for rape victims. The amendment will help ensure extra protection for victims’ counselling notes, by raising the threshold that needs to be met for the police to ask for them. It’s something that charities like Rape Crisis and the End Violence Against Women Coalition have been campaigning for. Joining Krupa is Baroness Gabby Bertin, the Conservative peer who tabled the amendment.
According to new research, people who are 65 think that old age begins just before you turn 75. However, 74-year-olds think old age starts at 77. Women think old age starts later than men do. So when are you 'old' and what does 'old' mean? Krupa speaks to Steph Daniels who re-joined her local hockey team at 75, after a 40-year gap, and has just started managing a band again.
ARFID stands for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Commonly underdiagnosed as picky eating, we’ll hear how the eating disorder manifests in children and what it’s like for parents. Krupa speaks to a mother, Lisa Hale, whose son has the condition and Professor Sandeep Ranote, Clinical Spokesperson for the eating disorders charity BEAT.
An adaption of Muriel Spark’s novel The Girls of Slender Means is currently on at The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. Set in the summer of 1945, it follows the adventures of a group of young women who are caught between hope and unhappiness. As each girl grapples with what happened in the war, they begin to imagine what lies ahead of them in peacetime. Actress and writer Gabriel Quigley tells Krupa how she felt adapting the words of one of the greatest British novelists.
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Woman's Hour Podcast. podcasts. greens or squirms at the sight of new foods. |
| 0:53.2 | You may be used to phrases like, |
| 0:55.0 | they're just a picky eater, or they'll grow out of it. |
| 0:57.8 | This is what Lisa from Northern Ireland |
| 1:00.0 | had heard so often, only to learn that her son was suffering from arfid that is |
| 1:05.8 | avoided restrictive food intake disorder. Nine-year-old Killian currently eats |
| 1:11.3 | only popcorn and boiled pasta and he's not had a hot |
| 1:14.8 | meal in around five years. We will hear an honest account from Lisa about what life |
| 1:20.7 | is like for them as a family. |
| 1:23.5 | Also, when does old age begin? |
| 1:26.5 | A new study has found that our perception of when old age starts |
| 1:30.0 | has increased over time. |
| 1:31.7 | So the older you get, the later old age starts. At the age of |
| 1:36.0 | 64, for example, the average person thought old age starts around 75 years old, but then by the time they're 74 they said old age started at |
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