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Woman's Hour

Ofcom's age check guidance, Adwaith, Kamala Harris's legacy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has published new industry guidance for online services, in which it sets out how it expects online platforms - including social media and porn sites - to introduce highly effective age check measures to prevent children from accessing online pornography and to protect them from other types of harmful content. To discuss the new guidance and its potential impact Anita Rani is joined by Lindsey Fussell, OFCOM’s interim group director for online safety.

Kamala Harris made history as the first woman - and first woman of colour - to become Vice President of the United States of America. She rose higher in the country’s leadership than any other woman before her. Anita discusses her legacy and future with BBC News Online Editor, Courtney Subramanian; and co-founder of Higher Heights, an organisation that works to mobilise black women voters, Kimberly Peeler-Allen. What might be next for the woman who could have been the first female president?

A Royal College of Nursing report, On the Frontline of the UK's Corridor Care Crisis, out today, finds that the situation in A&E is the worst it has ever been and that a lack of hospital beds means corridor care has been "normalised". One nurse described caring for a 95-year-old woman dying with dementia who had spent eight hours lying on a trolley in a crowded corridor next to a drunk person who was vomiting and being abusive. Others describe women having a miscarriage in side rooms. Professor Nicola Ranger, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing joins Anita to discuss what is going on.

The all-female, Welsh-language, post-punk trio Adwaith are the only band to have won the Welsh Music Prize twice, for their first two albums. The critically-lauded band are about to release their third album, Solas, all about returning to their hometown in Carmarthen. Band members Hollie Singer, Gwenedd Owen and Gwen Anthony talk to Anita about writing in Welsh, what home means to them, and being role models for young women – and they perform their latest single Miliwn live in the Woman’s Hour studio.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.

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My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

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It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

0:16.3

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

0:19.6

And because the team is such a diverse

0:21.2

range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through

0:26.0

archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if

0:31.8

you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories

0:37.1

from all around the UK. BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK.

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BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:44.2

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

0:49.1

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

0:55.6

Good morning and welcome to Woman's Hour. A new report is out today which surveyed 5,000 nurses

1:01.7

in the past four weeks. You just heard about it in the news bulletin there. It's titled

1:05.9

On the Frontline of the UK's Corridor Care Crisis. It's revealed some shocking truths about nurses' experiences within hospitals, but particularly in A&E.

1:16.4

Over half a million patients had to wait at least 12 hours in A&E to be admitted to a hospital bed last year.

1:23.1

And this lack of beds means that corridor care has become normalized.

1:28.9

Well, this morning, we'd like to hear from you about your experiences of either being a nurse and what the situation is like for you

1:34.6

at work or if you or someone you know had to be in hospital in the last few months. How was that

1:41.4

experience? Get in touch with the program in the usual way. The text number

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is 84844. You can contact us on WhatsApp on 0-3700-100-444. You can email the program by going to our website.

1:53.6

And of course, if you want to follow us on social media, it's at BBC Woman's Hour. Also on the program today with the inauguration of Donald Trump just around the corner,

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