Parenting a child with a stammer, EHRC Chair Baroness Falkner, Ukrainian chess player Kamila Hryshchenko
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Research by the charity Stamma shows that 8% of children will start stuttering at some point. Our listener Geri, a mother who’s son has a stammer, got in touch with Woman’s Hour and asked us to discuss the topic. Kirsten Howells from Stamma, Tiktokker Jessie Yendle and Geri join Claire McDonnell to share their own experiences and advice.
In 2013 Benita Alexander was working as a producer at NBC in New York. Tasked with putting a documentary together on renowned Swiss surgeon Dr Paolo Macchiarini, the pair soon grew close and started dating. However, not was all what it seemed with both their relationship and the success of his surgical invention. Benita joins Claire McDonnell to tell her story, as featured in the new Netflix documentary, Bad Surgeon: Love Under The Knife?
The UK’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission is being investigated by the UN over its position on “biological sex” and the provision of single-sex spaces. We talk to EHRC Chair Baroness Kishwer Falkner.
Kamila Hryshchenko is one of the highest chess ranked players in England however until very recently she represented a different nation. Kamila and her mother were forced to flee their home nation of Ukraine during the outbreak of war in 2022 and it was chess that proved instrumental to securing Kamila and her mother’s safety. Kamila has chosen to now play for England and she joins Clare McDonnell.
Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Emma Pearce
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| 0:43.0 | One of the UK's leading human rights groups is facing a challenge on its approach to human rights, |
| 0:49.0 | the E.H.R.C. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is being challenged by trans rights groups led |
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| 1:02.2 | how they should define the protected |
| 1:03.9 | characteristic of sex. Now if they lose that argument it could mean they become |
| 1:08.4 | mere observers at the UN Human Rights Council rather than participants. |
| 1:13.9 | So we're going to hear from the chair of the EHRC Baroness Kishwa Faulkner on the program today. |
| 1:20.6 | Do you live with a stammer if you do? How do you cope and what kind of help if any did you get as a child? |
| 1:27.0 | Women's our listener Jerry got in touch with us. Her 8 year old son Elliot has a stammer and she's concerned about the lack of understanding |
| 1:34.8 | and representation of the condition in our society. She will join us along with |
| 1:39.5 | tick-tocker Jesse Yendel who's been sharing her stammer story online to over 2 million |
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