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Woman's Hour

Mounjaro price rise, The Real Housewives of London, Nail bars

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As Mounjaro increases its prices, there are fears that more women will turn to black market drugs. Nuala McGovern talks to pharmacist Sehar Shahid about how easy it is to swap brands of the weight loss drug, and to Jeanie Annan-Lewin, who buys the medicine privately, about whether she will still be able to afford it. If you pop into a nail bar in a big city in the UK, you may notice the technician might be Vietnamese – and they could be here illegally. UK Border Force has been carrying out a series of raids on nail bars here in the UK and there have been several arrests. We speak to journalist Shayma Bakht from The Times about her investigation into how the workers get here and a link between a nail academy in Vietnam and a smuggling ring. As The Real Housewives of London launches, we explore why the TV franchise is so successful, what it does for women, and why high drama, female friendships and expensive houses make such compelling viewing. The author of The Real Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Housewives, Brian Moylan, and Guardian columnist Sarah Ditum discuss what makes the show so popular. Kerry Evans is the disability liaison officer for Wrexham AFC. When Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney realised they had to win over the supporters of the football club they wanted to buy, Kerry was one of the people they called! She was born with cerebral palsy and suffered a brain bleed that left her in a wheelchair. Her memoir, Stronger Than You Think, tells how she found herself again through football, as a fan and then by providing a voice for football supporters with disabilities.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Melanie Abbott

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.6

Hello, this is Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.

0:10.4

Hello, you're very welcome, and I hope you had a good weekend.

0:13.6

Well, we're going to speak about the weight loss drug, Manjaro, this morning.

0:17.5

It's expected to raise its price significantly.

0:20.2

We're going to hear why and also what

0:22.2

patients and doctors are doing in response. So that coming up in a moment. Also today, the Home Office

0:27.8

has invested. You may have heard £7 million in smashing Vietnamese smuggling gangs over the past

0:34.8

months. But just how effective has it been?

0:42.0

We'll take a look at Vietnamese nail bars and also how some of them fit into smuggling networks working from Vietnam all the way to the UK.

0:46.4

This hour, I'm also looking forward to meeting Kerry Evans.

0:49.4

Now, she is the Disability Liaison Officer for Wrexham Association Football Club.

0:55.1

She has been called the heart and soul of the now famous club

0:58.4

by the Hollywood stars who took it over. That was in 2021.

1:02.3

We're going to hear more about Kerry's life

1:03.9

as she releases her memoir, Stronger Than You Think.

1:08.0

Plus, one more story. It's caught my eye this morning.

1:10.5

The actor Dame Helen

1:11.4

Mirren has said that even though she is such a feminist, James Bond should be played by a man

1:17.3

and that you cannot have a woman. She says, it just doesn't work. James Bond has to be James Bond,

1:23.9

otherwise it becomes something else. I want to know this morning whether you agree

1:27.8

or disagree. And if you think it can be a woman, who should it be? You can text the program,

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