Minette Walters, Menopause supplement adverts, Blake Lively

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Bestselling author Minette Walters shot to fame in the 1990s with her award-winning gritty crime novels The Ice House, The Sculptress and The Scold’s Bridle. She continued to write successful crime fiction for over twenty years until, inspired by a plague pit, Minette changed tack in 2017 and began to write historical novels. She joins Krupa Padhy to discuss her new novel The Players.

Struggling with menopause symptoms? Social media is full of ads promising miracle cures, but many are too good to be true. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned several ads for making unsubstantiated claims about menopause relief. Krupa discusses this issue with Donna Castle from the ASA, menopause expert Dr Paula Briggs and Katrina Anderson from Mills Reeve.

The summer box office hit It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, has taken a dramatic turn off-screen. Last week, Lively filed a legal complaint against her co-star, accusing him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a smear campaign against her. The BBC’s Yasmin Rufo tells Krupa the latest.

The Gavin and Stacey finale will be on our screens on Christmas Day, BBC 1 at 9pm. Krupa speaks to our own slice of Barry Island - Linda Bailey is the tour guide of the official Gavin and Stacey Bus Tour on Barry. She runs the tour as Nessa’s second cousin - Sally from the Valleys - and they visit all the filming locations.

Festive rom-coms tend to follow a comfortably predictable format - small towns covered in snow, romantic misunderstandings and a happy ending. Film critic Rhianna Dillon and journalist Kayleigh Dray join Krupa to discuss this year’s releases, whether there’s a deeper meaning behind them and the rise of the 'cinnamon roll' man.

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0:45.8	Hello, this is Krupa, party, and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:51.8	Hello, thank you for being with us. We have a festive line-up for you this morning.
0:55.9	You might be going through the TV listings for the next few days lining up the films that you want to watch during this holiday season. We'll be talking about
1:00.7	our love for Hallmark movies. Two film critics will give us their takes on this year's offerings.
1:07.2	If the romance, cheese and happily ever after endings draw you in, let us know your favourites.
1:14.6	And staying with Christmas TV, the final episode of Gavin and Stacey is out tomorrow.
1:20.0	We're going to introduce you to Linda Bailey, also known as Sally From the Valleys,
1:25.3	who will tell us more about her work as a tour guide on the official
1:29.2	Gavin and Stacey bus tour on Barry Island. And on the eve of Christmas, you might be sat on the
1:36.0	living room floor swamped in a pile of prezies, wrapping paper and ribbons. We want to learn from you
1:42.5	whether your gift-giving traditions have changed over time.
1:46.9	Maybe you've stopped giving gifts to the adults in your circle and focus on the children.
1:52.0	Maybe you opt for a secret Santa approach. Maybe you don't give any at all.
1:56.7	Or whether it's friends, family, colleagues or neighbours, are you someone who doesn't miss a single person out?
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