Millie Bobby Brown's video, Tuppence Middleton on OCD, 30 years of Lush

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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A video made and posted by Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown has gone viral. In it she criticises the recent press articles about her appearance, saying "this isn't journalism, this is bullying". The 21-year-old posted a three-minute monologue on her Instagram page, in which she called out article headlines and the names of the reporters who wrote them. Anita Rani is joined by Anita Bhagwandas, beauty journalist and author of Ugly, Olivia Petter, journalist with the Independent and Morgan Fargo, Beauty and Wellness Editor British Vogue to talk about the impact of Millie calling this behaviour out.

Today the General Medical Council has announced that for the first time since their records began, women doctors practising medicine in the UK are greater in number than their male counterparts in the UK. It is an historic moment, but the announcement also acknowledges that women are more likely to be affected by discriminatory behaviour during their medical training and some specialisms still have relatively low numbers of women. To discuss the challenges faced by women doctors, Anita is joined by Professor Dame Carrie MacEwan, a consultant Ophthalmologist and Chair of the GMC and Dr Leanne Armitage, a locum doctor working in General Medicine and co-founder of the Armitage Foundation for young people from under-represented backgrounds who want to study medicine.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition that affects less than 2 percent of the population. For as long as the actor and star of Downton Abbey Tuppence Middleton can remember, she has had recurring unwanted intrusive thoughts that led to compulsions such as mental counting, checking and handwashing. She also has emetophobia, an intense fear of vomiting. Tuppence joins Anita to discuss her memoir ‘Scorpions,’ which explores nearly thirty years of living with OCD and the impact it has had on her daily life.

As the beauty brand Lush marks 30 years Anita is joined by one of the co-founders and product designer, Rowena Bird. Starting with one shop in Dorset, Lush now has over 800 stores in 51 countries, so how do they balance their ethical credentials with their global reach?

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

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0:00.0	He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.
0:09.3	I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II.
0:17.6	What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.
0:22.0	Tales of deception, an incredible acts of resistance and courage.
0:26.3	She was a born soldier.
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0:40.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:45.2	Good morning, welcome to the programme.
0:47.4	We have hit a significant milestone in women's history.
0:51.4	For the first time in the UK, there are more women doctors than men.
0:55.8	Quite an achievement considering that women were only first allowed to study medicine from 1874,
1:01.8	and only in one place, the London School of Medicine for Women. So we're going to dig into the successes
1:06.5	and look at the remaining challenges still faced by women doctors today.
1:13.2	Now imagine you're walking down a high street and you suddenly get a waft of a soapy sweet smell hitting your senses.
1:18.0	A shop you can smell before you even see the fizzy bath bombs and shampoo bars it's famous for.
1:23.4	Most of you will know I'm talking about lush.
1:25.9	Well, it's celebrating its 30th birthday,
1:28.1	and one of the founders, Rowena Bird, will be here to tell us about how this global,
1:32.6	milty, multi-million pound brand got to become what it is.
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