Primodos debate, Rebuilding my life: Wiz Wharton, Cricket umpire pay
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today MPs from all parties are holding a debate on a controversial pregnancy testing drug used widely in the 1960s and 1970s. It's expected that MPs from all parties will speak, including former Prime Minister Theresa May. In May, the High Court rejected a claim for compensation saying it could not proceed because there was no new evidence linking the tests with foetal harm. Marie Lyon, Chairwoman of the Association for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests and Hannah Bardell MP, Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group On Hormone Pregnancy Testing, join Nuala McGovern.
In the last in our series Rebuilding My Life, Nuala speaks to Wiz Wharton, author of Ghost Girl, Banana. Wiz was sectioned under the Mental Health Act 24 years ago, which led to a diagnosis of bipolar. She was forced to confront her demons and work out what needed to change, including owning her identity as a British-Chinese woman and learning how to stand up to the racism she had experienced all her life.
Exclusive reporting from The Guardian this week shows that cricket umpires were paid three times more to officiate the men’s Hundred this summer than the women’s. It comes just days after the England and Wales Cricket Board announced that the women’s teams will get the same match fees as the men’s. Nuala speaks to journalist Raf Nicholson.
One of the last surviving Bletchley Park codebreakers has died aged 99. Margaret Betts was just 19 when she was headhunted to work on the project. Nuala speaks to Tessa Dunlop, author of The Bletchley Girls, to find out a bit more about her.
Dame Shirley Bassey will become the first female solo artist in British history to be honoured with a stamp series. Welsh music journalist Jude Rogers joins Nuala.
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| 0:40.0 | Hello, this is Neulam Agarvern and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:45.7 | Hello, welcome to Woman's Hour, good to be with you today. |
| 0:49.4 | First off, thanks for all your insight and contributions to our phone in yesterday. |
| 0:54.5 | We asked whether we need a minister for men, all very thought-provoking stuff. |
| 0:59.5 | Thank you so much for all of that. |
| 1:00.9 | Well, today we'll be speaking about the controversial hormone pregnancy test promoters. |
| 1:06.2 | Now, there is a debate later today by MPs on the ongoing campaign for redress, that will |
| 1:11.3 | be coming up in just a moment. |
| 1:13.2 | And also, as you've just been hearing, Dame Shirley Bassi coming to a stamp near you. |
| 1:17.6 | She's the first solo female music artist to have that honor, so we'll talk about that. |
| 1:23.5 | We'll also hear about the gender pay gap, gender pay gap even, in cricket, umpiring. |
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