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Woman's Hour

Natasha Kaplinsky, Misogynist influencers, Professor Joanna Bourke, Dr Rebecca Gomperts

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Natasha Kaplinsky has become the first female president of the British Board of Film Classification, which is responsible for setting age guidelines for films, videos and DVDs, as well as content on some streaming services. The journalist, presenter and former newsreader for the BBC, Sky and Channel 5 joins Anita for her first broadcast interview about the role since her appointment in November. She'll discuss what drew her to the job, which topics concern parents the most and how she'll judge today's cultural sensitivities around sex, violence and language. Andrew Tate appeared in court earlier this week and is continuing to be held on charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania – charges his lawyer claims have “no evidence.” One of the top ten most Googled individuals of 2022, a kickboxer turned life coach and former contestant of Big Brother, he gained popularity for his online videos which contained misogynistic content. But Andrew Tate is not the only person spreading those views on social media, there are a host of other men who have that space. So who are they preaching to and why are their messages so popular? Anita speaks to journalist Harriet Hall who interviewed Andrew Tate as part of an investigation into misogyny online for Cosmopolitan magazine and Dr Bettina Rottweiler from University College London who specialises in the relationship between misogyny and different types of violence. Professor Joanna Bourke has been looking into the history of breast cancer. How did the one-step radical mastectomy persist as the most common way to deal with the disease until relatively recently? How was breast cancer racialized, with many doctors in the US who believed that black women could not get it? And why are women encouraged to reconstruct their missing breast after surgery? Joanna is the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, and is giving a lecture on the cultural history of breast cancer this evening, which will also be available to watch online. She joins Anita in studio. Dr Rebecca Gomperts has spent her career providing abortions in places where the procedure is restricted or illegal. Her first venture, Women on Waves, saw her using a converted fishing trawler to travel into international waters and perform the procedures on board. Then she started an online service shipping abortion pills to women, using her Austrian medical license to stay within the law. Most recently her attention has turned to the US in the wake of the overturning of Roe vs Wade. She joins Anita Rani to discuss how her work has changed.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.4

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

0:10.0

Now before we get into the items for the program today, film awards season has begun and finally

0:15.5

the conversations for women have become more than just about who are you wearing, although

0:20.0

that's still very important.

0:21.6

If the Golden Globes are a sign of things to come, older women are finally being celebrated.

0:26.8

This morning, team woman's hour would like to give a special mention to Michelle Yew,

0:31.0

Jennifer Coolidge and Angela Bassett, all in their 60s and all winners at the ceremony

0:36.0

in LA just goes to show your best days could still be ahead of you.

0:39.9

I felt they deserved a shout out this morning.

0:42.7

Now, random acts of kindness can actually improve your mental health.

0:47.2

A study has suggested that people who perform kind acts for others showed an improvement

0:51.7

of their depressive symptoms over a number of weeks.

0:54.6

Doing nice things for people, focusing on someone else may help people with depression

0:59.0

and anxiety feel better about themselves.

1:02.0

So on this grey Thursday and January, I would love to hear your real world examples

1:06.8

of this.

1:07.8

Your acts of kindness, please, what have you done for someone and crucially, how did it

1:12.2

make you feel have you helped a neighbour, made someone dinner help to stranger in need,

1:16.4

stopped to help someone in the street, or indeed what has someone done for you?

1:21.0

Now I love going for a run first thing in the morning as it's great for my mind, body

1:24.2

and spirit, but sometimes, particularly if there's a glorious sunrise, I'll remember to

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