Kyla Harris, Mania and perimenopause, Daughters documentary, Maternity clothes
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A new study just published says that perimenopausal women are more likely to experience bipolar and major depressive disorder. Cardiff University academics worked with charity Bipolar UK and the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database, to look at nearly 130,000 UK women and focused on the four years around the last menstrual period. Dr Clare Dolman, an ambassador for Bipolar UK and patient and public involvement lead on the project, joins Jessica Creighton.
We Might Regret This is a brand new BBC comedy that has been pegged by reviews as ‘the next Fleabag’. It centres on Freya, who is an artist and tetraplegic, as she moves in with her partner and hires her best friend to be her personal assistant. The series is partly based on the experiences of Kyla Harris, the co-creator who stars as Freya. She joins Jessica to talk about everything from having a third person in a relationship to misconceptions around disability.
What do you think of maternity clothes? For mums-to-be in 2024, it's apparently all about low-cut jeans and crop tops, moving away from traditional maternity wear. Retailers are recording a decrease of maternity clothes searches with women instead opting for regular clothes, perhaps in a bigger size. So why the shift? Jessica is joined by Assistant Fashion Editor at The Times, Hannah Rogers and influencer and author Alex Light to discuss.
A brand new documentary film called Daughters follows four girls whose fathers are in prison in the US. They are all preparing for a special prison visit – a father-daughter dance that sees some of them meeting for the first time. Co-director of the film and CEO of Girls for a Change Angela Patton joins Jessica to talk about her work with black girls and their fathers, along with a father and daughter from the UK who have personal experience of the challenges of a father being in prison.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read |
| 0:08.2 | everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge. |
| 0:14.7 | It's part of what it means to be human. |
| 0:17.5 | Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance. |
| 0:22.1 | There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative. |
| 0:25.0 | The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan |
| 0:29.0 | with me Rory Stewart, |
| 0:31.0 | listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm Jessica Creighton, |
| 0:40.0 | welcome to the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Happy Friday and welcome to the program. |
| 0:45.0 | Now we'll be discussing ground-breaking research around the menopause that's been released today. |
| 0:50.0 | In the first of its kind, a new study has found an increase in the risk of developing depression during pereminopause. |
| 0:56.5 | I'll have more on that in just a moment. |
| 0:59.0 | Also this morning, I'll be speaking to a father and daughter trying to repair their relationship |
| 1:04.0 | after he was imprisoned for the first 10 years of her life. |
| 1:07.0 | They receive support from a project called Father's Today, |
| 1:11.0 | which is partnered with a similar US scheme called Date with Dad. That hosts a one-off |
| 1:16.3 | formal dance for incarcerated dads and their daughters actually held in the prison. It's the focus |
| 1:22.0 | of a new Netflix documentary, and I'll also be speaking |
| 1:25.2 | to the co-director. Also joining me will be the artist and activist Kyla Harris who stars in a new BBC |
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