Mary Anning statue, Sean O'Neill and daughter's death from ME, Social care

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This month, the health secretary announced a new plan to tackle ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in England. Woman’s Hour is joined by Sean O’Neill, a senior writer for the Times, whose eldest daughter Maeve, passed away last October at the age of 27, after suffering from ME since she was a teenager. Emma also talks to Dr Charles Shepherd, medical advisor to the ME Association. ITV's reality TV show Love Island has dropped its fast fashion sponsors for more sustainable, preloved fashion for its next season. Love Island is known for setting fashion trends with contestants often wearing several outfits in each episode. But this time the outfits will be from Ebay and they will be second-hand. Emma is joined by Natalie Binns who is a fashion buying and sustainability sourcing consultant for several independent brands. In the last of our series Threads Listener Jeanie remembers her marvellous Aunty Mary whose Land Girl jacket holds so many happy memories. Tens of thousands more youngsters will end up in care unless radical changes are made to child protection a major new review has warned. Polly Curtis, journalist and author of Behind Closed Doors: Why we break up families and how to mend them, joins Emma to discuss the findings of the report. A statue of the 19th-century fossil hunter Many Anning was unveiled this weekend, on Saturday, in Lyme Regis in Dorset. Mary was a fossil hunter who made many significant discoveries. Her bronze statue is thanks to a local 15-year-old schoolgirl called Evie Swire, who campaigned for Mary to be immortalised Evie is at school today, but Emma is joined by her mother Anya Pearson. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore Studio Manager: Tim Heffer

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.4	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:12.2	I hope you've had a lovely weekend and got a little bit of sunshine if it was indeed
0:15.7	shining where you were.
0:17.7	But on today's programme, from clothes you can't throw away to love islands, sustainability
0:22.8	attempt, I've got it all for you.
0:25.0	We also have the writer and journalist Polly Curtis coming back on because today is the
0:28.6	day that a highly anticipated and long overdue report into children's social care in England
0:34.0	is out.
0:35.0	She wrote a book about the state of children's care services and has been waiting to
0:38.9	see the outcome of this report.
0:41.2	She'll take us through it.
0:42.7	But let me tell you about my first guest today.
0:45.6	Used to writing the stories, not being the story, he is sure no-neil, the chief reporter
0:50.4	of the Times, known for his agenda settings scoops which include the alleged sexual exploitation
0:55.8	by Oxfam aid workers.
0:58.2	But today he's come on woman's hour to talk about a story, a reality much closer to home.
1:04.1	Because last October, he lost his 27-year-old daughter Maeve after she had suffered from
1:09.2	ME since she was a teenager.
1:12.2	He's now trying to raise the profile and understanding of the condition.
1:16.8	You'll hear from Sean shortly, but before you do, I wanted to ask if you have also tried
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