'Sharenting', Blood Scandal, Mary Shelley, British Gymnastics
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Have you heard of the term 'sharenting'? That’s when a parent, caregiver or relative shares content about their child’s life, such as news, videos, images, online. Some have even turned it into a lucrative business. The psychologist Dr Elaine Kasket was an habitual 'sharent', chronicling her young daughter’s life on social media. But then four years ago at the age of nine, her daughter told her she didn’t like her doing it, so she stopped. Elaine’s written about 'sharenting' and her experiences in a chapter in her new book Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World. She joins Jessica Creighton along with her daughter Zoe.
British Gymnastics has published a list of 62 banned coaches and members, as part of its response to the damning Whyte Review published in 2022, which detailed 'systemic' issues of physical and emotional abuse in the sport. The campaign group Gymnasts for Change has accused the governing body of "serious institutional betrayal" for not including more people on the list, who they believe meet the criteria. We heard from the co-founder of Gymnasts for Change, Claire Heafford and BBC Sports correspondent Natalie Pirks.
In the 70s and 80s, nearly 5,000 people with haemophilia contracted HIV or Hepatitis C after being infected by tainted blood clotting products. Over 2,800 people died including women and children in what was described as 'the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS’. With an ongoing public inquiry, we spoke to Sunday Times Political Editor Caroline Wheeler, who has interviewed countless victims and has been following the story for 20 years.
You’ll no doubt be familiar with the book Frankenstein - but how much do you know about its author Mary Shelley? That’s a question that led director, Lucy Speed, and producer, Deborah Clair, to write, direct and produce their new play that’s about to start touring in the UK. Conception - Mary Shelley: The Making of a Monster tells the story of a journey of self-discovery, as the Frankenstein author returns, years later, to Lake Geneva where she wrote her famous novel. The play is hitting the stage around the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the novel under Mary Shelley’s name - having originally been published anonymously.
Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Kirsty Starkey
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Jessica Criton. Welcome to the |
| 0:07.3 | Woman's Hour podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the program. Great to have your company. |
| 0:11.9 | Now this morning we'll have the inside story and what's been described as one of the worst |
| 0:16.4 | health scandals in British history. 2,800 people are known to have died after being infected |
| 0:22.8 | by contaminated NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s. Tens of thousands more lives were |
| 0:29.7 | impacted. One journalist has followed this story for 20 years, speaking to many of the |
| 0:35.0 | victims and their families about their experiences for her new book. Caroline Wheeler will join |
| 0:40.4 | me a little bit later in the program. Now can you believe it's been 200 years, yes, |
| 0:46.4 | 200 years since Frankenstein was first published under Mary Shelley's name. It was originally |
| 0:52.5 | published anonymously, of course. Two women who are fans of Shelley's work have written, |
| 0:57.7 | directed and produced a play about her life, which we'll be discussing later in the program. |
| 1:03.2 | Also this morning, I have a feeling many of you will have an opinion on this next discussion |
| 1:08.6 | topic, sharing Ting as it's called. When a parent or caregiver shares photos and videos of their |
| 1:15.0 | child's life online, do you do it? Are you against it maybe? In today's social media age, |
| 1:22.3 | it really does feel like the norm, doesn't it? We'll hear from a mum who constantly recorded her |
| 1:27.5 | daughter's life and conversations online for a number of years until her daughter, at the age of |
| 1:32.8 | nine, simply asked her to stop. What are your thoughts on this? Get in touch. Have you shared your |
| 1:38.0 | sonogram online when you found out you're pregnant? Do you post your child's milestones, |
| 1:42.8 | like birthdays, riding a bike, swimming for the first time? Maybe you do post, but you blank out |
| 1:48.6 | your child's face? Perhaps you don't post at all. Why not? Let me know. You can text me on 84844. |
| 1:55.4 | Text will be charged at your standard message rate. You can WhatsApp me as well. Don't forget |
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