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Woman's Hour

Losing a friend to suicide, Period pants, The release of Loujain al-Hathloul

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Loujain al-Hathloul, the Saudi women's rights activist, has just been released from prison after spending nearly three years in prison. Instrumental in the movement to allow women to drive in the kingdom, she was imprisoned in 2018, just weeks before the ban was lifted. We speak to her sister Lina who has led the campaign to free Loujain for the last three years. Why are period pants still being taxed and not classed as a sanitary product? With Ruby Raut, founder of WUKA period pants and Sarah Olney MP, who's leading an early day motion to remove the 20% tax. How do we cope with the grief of losing a friend to suicide? It has been exactly one year since TV presenter Caroline Flack took her own life. Caroline stood down as presenter of Love Island in 2019 after she was charged of assaulting her boyfriend. She pleaded not guilty, and was due to stand trial in March. Emma speaks to her close friend Ophelia Lovibond and to Sarah Bates from the charity, Support After Suicide. Christine Keeler: the woman who nearly brought down the government in the 60s. She had an affair with Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, when she was just 19. In an unconnected court case, but one which is also linked in a complicated saga, she ended up being sentenced to nine months in prison. Seymour now wants a pardon for his mother. Next month he'll start court proceedings.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

0:06.8

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Fladiated.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts.

0:34.7

Hello, it's Emma Barnet here.

0:36.3

Welcome to the Woman's Our podcast.

0:38.8

Good morning.

0:39.5

Today we finally have an interview for you

0:41.5

that we promised last week, but due to technical difficulties was delayed.

0:45.0

We're going to hear from Blue Sanford one of the women protesting against HS2 by living

0:50.0

in the tunnels below Houston Square.

0:52.0

She's cold, determined and living off beans.

0:55.6

But my question to you today is regarding another one of our interviews. A bit later

1:00.5

in the program I'll be joined by the actor Ophelia Lovebond.

1:04.0

She was one of the best friends of Caroline Flack, who died a year ago to the day.

1:10.0

What I wanted to ask you is how you have coped specifically after the death of a friend.

1:15.0

It is different to a family member. There can also be different feelings, different techniques.

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