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Woman's Hour

Lebanon latest, Fell running, Breast cancer poetry

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The current conflict in Lebanon has forced thousands of women and children in refugee camps to once again leave their homes for their own safety. Kylie Pentelow is joined by the BBC’s Senior International Correspondent Orla Guerin to get the latest on the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and speaks to CEO and co-founder of the Alsama Project, Meike Ziervogel, to hear what impact it is having on women and children.

Woman’s Hour listener Fran Blackett got in touch with us because she wanted to talk about fell running, and why she wants more women involved in the sport. She joins Kylie to explain what fell running is, why she’s so passionate about it, and more about her women’s running group, Run Like a Haggis.

Are you in your 'protective hag' era? That's what the author and journalist Poorna Bell calls the position she finds herself in. Recently she’s written about feeling an increasing sense of protectiveness towards younger women. Poorna joins Kylie to talk about this stage of life and what it means to her.

It's being reported that Melania Trump - the wife of former President Donald Trump - has expressed explicit support for abortion rights - one of the key dividing lines in the US presidential election. Her stance appears to be in sharp contrast with the position of her husband, as he enters the final leg of the US presidential race. Gina Yannitell Rheinhardt, Professor of Government and an expert in US politics at the University of Essex, joins Kylie to discuss.

When Cathy Hollingworth was first diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, she decided to document her journey through poetry. Now she’s publishing a collection of 22 poems called Getting It Off My Chest. She joins Kylie to discuss the poems and how they helped her get through her treatment, as well as what she hopes others can learn about talking to people with cancer.

Presenter: Kylie Pentelow Producer: Lottie Garton

Transcript

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0:00.0

Was Amber Lynn really a wicked queen?

0:04.4

People feared women who were smart.

0:06.8

M flay girl.

0:08.0

Exactly.

0:09.0

What about resputing?

0:10.4

A miraculous mystic or a die-hard deviant. I think there's some bad stuff in there. I do weirdly respect him.

0:17.0

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0:20.0

Join me, Russell Kane and a host of comedians as we put more historical legends under scrutiny to find out if they're evil or genius.

0:32.0

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0:33.0

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0:35.0

Hello, this is Kylie Pentelow and you're listening to the Women's Hour

0:39.1

podcast.

0:40.1

Hello and welcome to the program. Today it seems Malania Trump has spoken out in support

0:46.8

of abortion at odds with her husband's public views. With a month until the American presidential election, we'll be looking at why she said this now,

0:56.1

and the history of First Lady's seemingly having different opinions on this issue to their partners.

1:02.2

Plus, we'll be talking to the journalist who says she's in her protective hag era.

1:08.0

What's that? Well, she says it's when you feel of an age where you want to protect younger women, particularly when they're

1:14.7

vulnerable in public places. So we want to hear your stories on this. Have you helped a younger or

1:20.4

indeed an older woman who you didn't know and what was the response.

1:24.3

You can text the program the number's 84844 on social media we're at

1:28.9

BBC Women's Hour you can email us to through our website or send us a

1:33.0

WhatsApp message or voice note using the number

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