Poorna Bell, Scars, Adele Parks

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Many of us will be thinking about making a change for the better now that we're in a new year. Poorna Bell, author and journalist, gives us some inspiration and talks about getting stronger, both emotionally and physically. Poorna took it literally and started weight lifting after illness and bereavement. We hear from Dr Ann Olivarius a lawyer who specialises in sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination. She explains the technicalities of the civil claim against Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. We speak to Detective Inspector Lucy Thomson and Jackie Sebire about the murder of 12 week old Teddie Mitchell. The investigation is covered in a new two-part special of Channel 4's 24 Hours in Police Custody. We have episode 4 in our series about scars. And Adele Parks’ latest novel called Both of You is a 'missing persons story' with a twist. We find out that the female protagonist is leading a double life as a bigamist. The book looks at what leads someone to have two marriages on the go, and the complexities around it.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's
0:07.7	Hour from BBC Radio 4. It is lovely to be back with you, coming to you from the Woman's
0:12.6	Hour studio live for my first time in 2022. I've got to get used to saying that a bit
0:17.5	like when you write the new year down on a piece of paper for the first time. As ever,
0:22.0	a packed program for you today, but I did want to take the opportunity as we start another
0:26.4	year together. To ask about something, a friend said to me the other day, we were walking
0:31.1	through a muddy field on New Year's Eve and we were discussing the next 12 months ahead
0:35.4	and she said to me for her, it wasn't about New Year's resolutions, but New Year's
0:40.0	graces. Now I've never heard this before, but she said it was kindnesses to herself and
0:45.0	to others. And after the last couple of years, that's what she felt she needed. It was
0:48.8	about gifts to give oneself, not taking things away that you may find hard. Well, one of
0:54.6	my guests today can talk about the New Year and how for many, it doesn't feel like a fresh
0:58.7	start and I'm aware that many of you today, for instance, aren't able to go where you're
1:02.2	meant to be going, whether that's to your office and you're still working from home or
1:05.5	perhaps you can't go to school to teach or learn. But the writer Pornabell will be here
1:09.8	to talk about how to try still to tap into that New Year new energy. But what would it
1:16.0	be for you? What would a new grace or a new gift for yourself that you could give yourself
1:20.9	would be this year instead of a resolution or something, you know, to take away from
1:25.0	yourself that might make the year harder. Tell me what comes to mind when I said that
1:29.1	to you this morning, eight four, eight four four is the number you need to text me here
1:32.2	at Woman's Hour. Text will be charged at your standard message rate. I was going to
1:37.0	try and take the year off eating chips. I'm going to share that with you now. My beloved
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