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Woman's Hour

Meta and Google trial, The Pitt actor Katherine LaNasa, Polyamory

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A young woman in the US has successfully sued Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp - and Google, owner of YouTube, over her childhood addiction to social media. In an unprecedented case, a jury in Los Angeles has found that the companies intentionally designed addictive platforms that harmed the 20-year-old's mental health. The woman, known as Kaley, has been awarded $6 million dollars (£4.5m) in damages. Both tech companies say they disagree with the verdict and will appeal. Anita Rani is joined by BBC Tech reporter Shiona McCallum.

Non-monogamous relationships appear to be having a pop culture moment, with polyamorous couples on our screens and open marriages profiled in numerous books on the topic, alternative relationships appear to be everywhere currently. Anita will discuss polyamory with Molly Roden-Winter, author of the memoir More: A Memoir of Open Marriage, and The Times journalist, Sarah Ditum.

Spain is to formally pardon 53 women survivors who were among thousands incarcerated by the Franco regime for being supposed 'fallen' women. Anita speaks to BBC Mundo journalist Alicia Hernandez and freelance journalist Cristina Garcia Casado about what happened in the 1940s when, as adolescents, the women were locked up by the Board for the Protection of Women, a collection of institutions run by religious orders and overseen by Carmen Polo, the wife of the dictator Gen Francisco Franco.

Actor Katherine LaNasa is starring in the second series of HBO’s award-winning TV medical drama The Pitt. She plays Dana Evans, a nurse; a part for which she won an Emmy. Katherine talks to Anita about nearly throwing in the boot before landing this role, how she and the rest of the cast were trained for hospital scenes and how her real-life experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer has impacted her work.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

An early start here. It's time to kick off.

0:10.0

Your day. Morning!

0:11.9

What a line-up.

0:13.3

Oh, thanks very much. We do get some great guests on the show.

0:16.1

The crowd is loving this.

0:18.3

Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind.

0:20.2

From morning chaos to match day commentary. And everything in

0:24.4

between BBC sounds packed with personality. Good morning and welcome to the program. Now during

0:32.3

the Franco regime in Spain, thousands of women who were said to have deviated from what was described at the time

0:39.9

as the supposed norms of female behaviour by the Board for the Protection of Women were locked

0:45.8

away. While now the Spanish government have officially pardoned 53 women, but does saying sorry go far

0:51.7

enough and why did it happen in the first place? We'll be finding out.

0:56.1

Polly amory or an open relationship. Are you in one? Have you considered one? Have you been in one?

1:02.9

It seems to be having a cultural moment. So we'll be discussing the options and how it works.

1:08.5

And who's watched The Pit, the critically acclaimed HBO Max medical drama

1:13.0

that from today you'll be able to binge watch.

1:15.6

Well, I'll be joined by Catherine Lanasa,

1:18.2

who plays big-hearted, straight-talking nurse, Dana Evans.

1:22.2

Catherine won her first Emmy for the role last year.

1:25.7

But about a year before she got the role, she was in quite a

1:28.9

dark place with a breast cancer diagnosis and had been unemployed for a while, but things

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