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Woman's Hour

Olive Thomas, The End of the Office Romance, Senior Women in the NHS, Parents Guide to Keeping Kids Suicide Safe

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

From flapper to femme fatale: Olive Thomas was the wild-living sex symbol of the jazz age and one of Hollywood's first starlets - but ended up dying in agony from poison in Paris Ritz 100 years ago. Suicide... or revenge of a jealous husband? Pamela Hutchinson, Film historian and critic specialising in silent cinema joins Jenni to discuss the story.

The NHS in England employs more than a million women, who make up 77% of the workforce, but that is not reflected in its senior leadership. In 2016 a target was set of 50:50 women to men on NHS boards by 2020. This has been missed, but the figure has risen to 44.7%. The NHS Confederation estimates that another 150 women need to be recruited overall, with some trusts having much further to go than others. Jenni speaks to Sam Allen, Chief Executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Health and Care Women Leaders Network at the NHS Confederation, and Prof Ruth Sealy from Exeter University Business School, who authored the report.

Suicide is the biggest killer of young people under 35 in the UK (ONS figures). A new guide for parents who are really worried about their children has been put out by Papyrus, an organisation which aims to prevent suicide. It encourages parents who might be scared to talk to their children, to make sure they do.

It’s been over five months since many of us sat in an office with a collective of colleagues. The work parties and special occasions are happening behind a screen. And more people than ever are thinking about permanently working from home. Is this well and truly the death of office relationships? And why do we love the idea of one so much in the first place? Anna Smith is a film critic and a host of the Girls On Film podcast. Ellen Scott is the Lifestyle Editor at the Metro UK. She met her partner at work four years ago.

CLIP CREDIT: The Office. Written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Presenter Jenni Murray.

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0:35.0

Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour Podcast for the 9th of September 2020.

0:41.0

Good morning. In today's program, Wither the Office Romance. Few people meet

0:47.8

at work in the midst of the pandemic, so is falling in love by the water cooler a thing of the past or can passion be ignited

0:55.8

technologically. From Flapper to Fanfatel, Olive Thomas was one of

1:00.6

Hollywood's first starlet. We look back at the short life of the woman who died a hundred years ago in the writ in Paris.

1:08.0

And as suicide is found to be the biggest killer of young people under 35 in the UK, a new guide for parents

1:16.0

who are worried about their child's state of mind.

1:20.4

The NHS in England employs more than a million women who make up 77% of the workforce

1:26.2

but when it comes to chief executives chairs chief finance and medical officers there is nowhere near that level of women in

1:34.8

senior positions. In 2016 a target was set of 50-50 women to men on

1:41.0

NHS boards by 2020. It hasn't yet been reached so what

1:46.2

progress has been made and how might such a target be achieved. I'm joined by

1:51.9

Sam Allen who is chief Executive of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

1:57.0

She's also chair of the Health and Care Women Leaders Network at the NHS Confederation. Professor Ruth Seeley works at Exeter

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