Lorraine Kelly, the Pelvic Floor Challenge, Women proposing
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The doyenne of ITV Lorraine Kelly tells us what it’s like to have spent the last 35 years in broadcasting and why she's so excited about space travel.
The Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield discusses the growing pressure on child protection services. She says more needs to be done to tackle child poverty.
Inspired by her own experience of 25 years in the Church of Scientology, Mariette Lindstein has written a thriller called Fog Island. It's a bestseller in Sweden and is about a fictional cult based on an island off the Swedish coast.
The campaigner and founder of Victim Focus Jessica Eaton tells us why she believes some frontline child protection workers don’t feel equipped to do their jobs.
Urinary incontinence will affect 50 per cent of women during their lifetime. Wendy Powell explains how the #PelvicFloorChallenge will help and physiotherapist Elaine Miller gives indepth advice.
Freida Pinto tells us about her latest film Love Sonia about global sex trafficking.
Why are men still more frequently expected to propose in heterosexual relationships? Editor of Bride Magazine Jade Beer and writer Bella Mackie, who proposed to her husband, discuss.
Presented by Jane Garvey Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor:Jane Thurlow
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| 0:41.0 | Hi, good afternoon. Welcome to the weekend edition of the program. |
| 0:44.4 | This week we've got a real treat for you, an interview with Lorraine Kelly. |
| 0:48.4 | You can also hear the Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield on why she feels more has to be done about child poverty and why we all |
| 0:56.8 | need to do the pelvic floor challenge. |
| 1:00.0 | The stats are really damning. |
| 1:01.5 | It's one in three women will wet themselves if they laugh or cough or jump. |
| 1:05.0 | And there's a myth that this is just part of life. |
| 1:08.0 | It doesn't matter if you've had kids, it doesn't matter how old you are, your pelvic floor can always be improved with treatment and with doing your pelvic floor exercises. |
| 1:16.0 | More on that later. We've also got the actress Frida Pinto on her new film Love Sonia about the global sex trafficking industry and marriage proposals in |
| 1:25.8 | heterosexual relationships why don't more women do the proposing like when I |
| 1:30.8 | did it there were lots of comments saying that I was desperate and you know pathetic but the comments were from women |
| 1:36.0 | people might think it demeaning to sort of beg someone to marry you but of course the role's reversed and it's fine |
| 1:41.3 | That's Bella Mackie who proposed to her husband and |
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