Oti Mabuse, Eldest daughters, Hygiene poverty
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
2025 is a big year for former Strictly professional Oti Mabuse who is judging Dancing on Ice starting this weekend, then going on tour and publishing her first adult novel. She joins Krupa Padhy to tell us all about these projects, becoming a mother and how being on I’m A Celebrity taught her the importance of talking about feelings.
The term Eldest Daughter Syndrome is not an official mental health diagnosis, but on social media it has spurred women to talk about the way that being the eldest daughter in the family has affected them. Krupa speaks to therapist Louise Tyler and Sahra Abdulrehman, who is co-director of Home Girls Unite, a support group for eldest daughters.
We hear some of the emotional speeches from MPs across the House of Commons during yesterday's violence against women and girls debate including a response from Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips. Krupa then talks to Sophie Francis-Cansfield, Head of Policy at Women's Aid.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s charity, Multibank, is ramping up its efforts to tackle childhood hygiene poverty in 2025. Krupa is joined by primary school Pastoral Manager Kay Shaw, who runs the hygiene bank at her school in Doncaster, and lecturer and author Katriona O’Sullivan, who experienced this herself as a child.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2024, we were here for the chatty ones. |
| 0:04.6 | Right, it's time to talk about this with big name podcasts. |
| 0:07.8 | Amazing. |
| 0:08.6 | Side tracked. |
| 0:09.4 | Charlie Axiax. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome. |
| 0:11.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:13.6 | Desert Island Discs. |
| 0:14.8 | Killion, how have you found choosing your discs? |
| 0:16.8 | I showed a couple of friends the list and they said, oh, well, that's good. |
| 0:19.8 | There's no crazy obscure stuff out there. |
| 0:22.1 | And miss me. I was playing the pyramid stage of Bastonbury and I was like, there's no way they're going to see me walking out on that stage. We're like, whatever. The best of 2024 is here. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, this is Krupa Parti, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | Hello, great to have you with us this Friday morning. |
| 0:47.4 | From the dance floor on Strickley to being neck high in a tank full of scorpions and beachworms in the jungle. |
| 0:55.4 | Oti Mabusi is doing it all and she joins us for a chat in a few minutes ahead of her judging duties |
| 1:01.5 | in the new series of Dancing on Ice which kicks off this weekend. |
| 1:05.4 | Also I come from a family with a high number of women. |
| 1:08.8 | My mother is the youngest of six sisters and she often says |
| 1:11.9 | her eldest sister was like a second mother to her. My mother-in-law is one of the eldest of |
| 1:18.4 | 13 sisters and might I add there are no brothers in the mix. Now that's why I'm particularly |
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