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Woman's Hour

Menopause, Six Nations, Musician Emma-Jean Thackray

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The onset of menopause has resulted in 10% of women leaving work for good and more than half having to take time off, according to the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development. These findings were presented to business leaders yesterday at the launch of the first advisory group for menopause in the workplace. Mariella Frostrup is the Government's Menopause Employment Ambassador and she joins Anita Rani.

The Women's Six Nations culminates this weekend. England and France face each other at the Allianz Stadium Twickenham on Saturday to decide the rugby champions. Scotland face Ireland tomorrow and Wales and Italy face off on Sunday. The BBC's Sport Reporter Sara Orchard gives us the lowdown.

Rugby player Emma Wassell has been capped 67 times for Scotland and is hoping to make her comeback before the World Cup in England this summer after a traumatic absence. Last September a benign tumour was discovered in her chest – and her recovery has included several surgeries. As she gets back onto the training ground, she joins us to tell her story.

What happens when your private photo isn’t nude, but it still ruins your life? The current legal definition of ‘intimate’ image abuse, also known as “revenge porn”, doesn’t reflect the reality for Muslim and BME women. Many of these images aren’t defined as sexual through a western lens but can have serious consequences. We speak to Mariam Ahmed from Amina, the Muslim Women's Resource centre, who have launched an “exposed” campaign to tackle this issue.

Emma-Jean Thackray is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, bandleader and a DJ. Her sound has incorporated the widest range of music, from jazz and funk to Detroit house and techno, northern Bassline and catchy rock and pop music. She joins Anita to discuss her new album Weirdo, the inspirations behind it, and to perform live in the studio.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:10.5

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0:17.3

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0:21.5

40,000 pounds cost per annum.

0:23.8

We didn't know what to do.

0:25.5

Nobody's turned up to say, we'll help you protect it.

0:29.0

The Banksy story.

0:30.3

When Banksy comes to town, listen on BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:39.7

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:44.8

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

0:51.3

Good morning, welcome to the programme.

0:54.1

There's a mass exodus happening in the workforce.

0:57.6

It's women taking time off during menopause.

1:00.3

In fact, 10% of women leave their jobs completely because of it.

1:04.9

I'm going to be talking to Mariella Frostrup, the Menopause Employment Ambassador about what and why this is happening.

1:10.9

But of course, I also want to hear from you this morning about your experiences.

1:15.1

Did you have to leave work because of the menopause?

1:18.2

Did you feel supported, understood?

1:20.2

Were you even able to talk about what you were going through at work?

1:23.3

How did you get through it and how bad did it get?

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