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Woman's Hour

Manipulating body images in ads. National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa . Abortion stories. Nancy Pelosi Taipei visit.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Last week we talked about the Spanish equality ministry’s summer campaign promoting body positivity on the beach featuring diverse women of different shapes and sizes. But the campaign has received a lot of criticism since as it used multiple women’s images without their permission. We hear from one, Juliet Fitzpatrick who had a double mastectomy, who believes her face was manipulated and put onto the body of another woman - who had only one of her breasts removed. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial visit to Taipei in the face of warnings from Beijing. Pelosi has hinted she’d attracted China’s annoyance not for becoming the highest ranking US official to visit Taiwan in a quarter century, but because she’s a woman. Nancy Soderberg is an American foreign policy strategist and former US ambassador to the UN. And we are also joined by Isabel Hilton, the founder of China Dialogue. Good morning Poetry is the space where I go to make sense of the world' - the the words of Hanan Issa an Iraqi-Welsh poet from Cardiff who was recently appointed as the next National Poet of Wales. She joins Jessica to explore some of the themes which influence her work and talk about what the new role means to her. Since Roe v Wade was overturned in the US more women are telling their stories but secrecy and shame still surrounds abortion. In 2019 we asked you ‘have you had an abortion? How did you feel about it then and how do you feel about it now? Over the past few week's we've given you the opportunity to hear some of the stories again. Today in the fourth episode of the series we hear from a woman in her 60's we are calling "Alison". And Chrysta Bilton talks to us about her new book Book - A Normal Family: The Surprising Truth About My Crazy Childhood (And How I Discovered 35 New Siblings) Presenter Jessica Creighton Producer Beverley Purcell PHOTO CREDIT; Sue Lacey

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

Hello, I'm Jessica Crichton, welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:09.5

Good morning, welcome to the program.

0:11.3

Now, what would you describe as a normal family?

0:13.8

Does the term even exist?

0:15.6

Joining me a little later is a writer whose memoir explores her so-called,

0:19.4

Crazy Childhood, growing up with her drug-addicted party-loving mum.

0:23.3

She also writes about the shocking revelation that her dad had been secretly

0:27.0

donating sperm for over a decade, and she has more than 35 siblings.

0:32.2

It's really an extraordinary book, and the author, Krista Bilton,

0:35.6

is here from Los Angeles and will be with me in the studio.

0:39.3

I'd also like to hear from you this morning how in control do you feel

0:42.4

when it comes to photos and images of yourself?

0:45.5

We live in a world now where the photos can just be uploaded,

0:48.4

almost without your explicit consent.

0:50.6

For example, you could be tagged on Facebook,

0:52.5

or maybe you're in the background of a photo that's been uploaded to Instagram.

0:56.5

I have to say, one of my pet hates is being filmed whilst I'm in the gym,

1:01.5

and you don't even know it half the time.

1:03.4

Everyone wants to film their workouts apparently these days,

1:06.5

and they don't really seem too bothered about who they capture in the background.

1:09.5

The last thing I want is to be filmed whilst I'm sweating and grunting.

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