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🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Ian Paterson, who became known as the butchering breast surgeon, is currently serving a 20-year jail term after being convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and 3 counts of unlawful wounding. Now the Sunday Times has revealed that 27 inquests have been opened as a result of investigating the deaths of 650 of his patients. Nuala speaks to campaigner Debbie Douglas, who was one of Mr Paterson’s patients, and the Sunday Times Health Editor Shaun Lintern.
Is 'therapy speak' making us selfish? The prescriptive language of the therapist’s couch has slowly seeped into everyday life, particularly online where words like ‘boundaries’, ‘self-care’ and ‘narcissist’ are increasingly common. But when it comes to friendships, is the idea of self-care making us give up on them too easily? Sociologist and writer Amy Charlotte Kean talks to Nuala about how our relationships are being affected.
In the next in the Woman’s Hour Girl’s World series, Ena Miller has been talking to three girls in Glasgow, Saskia, Francesca and Olivia all of whom are 13 and 14 years of age. We often talk about girls and their lives on Woman’s Hour but we rarely talk to them, so Ena asks them - do they feel listened to?
Award-winning playwright and actor Lolita Chakrabarti joins Nuala in the Woman's Hour studio to talk about the new play 'Hamnet'. Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel of the same name tells the story of the death of Shakespeare’s 11 year old son as she would have us believe it happened. Having sold more than 1.5m copies the story has now moved from paper to stage at the RSC in Stratford Upon Avon thanks to an adaptation by Lolita. She'll tell us why she was so drawn to telling the story of the people around Shakespeare.
A new BBC Africa Eye documentary, Uganda’s Stolen Innocence, investigates the increasing levels of sexual violence and incest in Uganda, particularly in the North. Documentary producer Nicola Milne and Ugandan lawyer Eunice Lakaraber Latim join Nuala to talk about the lack of faith in the justice system and how the legacy of the insurgency led by Joseph Kony fuelled this issue further.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, this is Nulem O'Goveren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:11.4 | Well last week I went to not one, not two, but three plays. |
| 0:16.7 | You might know we spoke about dancing at Luna's, that tomorrow we will speak about Wagon |
| 0:21.0 | the Christie and today we have Lalita Chakraborti with us. |
| 0:25.2 | Lalita adapted their maguio farols, hamnit for the stage and I was lucky enough to see |
| 0:29.8 | the brilliant performances in Stratford upon Aven and we are lucky enough to have Lalita |
| 0:34.9 | join us this hour as we delve into history and also the stories of often overlooked women. |
| 0:41.6 | Also today we're going to focus on a very modern problem, that of life, co-chification |
| 0:47.8 | of relationships. |
| 0:49.0 | So friendships in particular, what am I talking about? |
| 0:52.2 | Well when self-care becomes careless selfishness, do you have any experience of this? |
| 0:58.9 | Have you encountered a friend unable to deal with a problem that you may have because |
| 1:03.3 | they're at emotional capacity and need to have boundaries? |
| 1:07.9 | You will have seen the whole social media trend on self-care. |
| 1:11.6 | But is therapy speak ruining our regular relationships? |
| 1:14.8 | Women are often addicted to be there for their friends, but has self-care become an excuse |
| 1:19.5 | to duck out of obligations or perhaps a vital tool enabling you to protect your own well-being? |
| 1:28.1 | Like this is resonating on either side, you can text the program, the number is 84844. |
| 1:33.4 | We're also on social media at BBC Women's Hour or email us through our website. |
| 1:37.8 | If you'd like to send a WhatsApp message or a voice note, that number is 037001444. |
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