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Woman's Hour

Shopping addiction, Gaza, 'Trad Wives', Rape cross-examination

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mental health nurse Rachel Luby has been discussing her shopping addiction with a UK newspaper. She says it led to her ordering thousands of pounds worth of presents for staff and patients on her ward and was receiving parcels every day. She feels her shopping addiction was trivialised - rather than being seen as a red flag. So how common is this? And why is it a problem to think that shopping is just something women do and enjoy? Nuala McGovern hears from financial psychotherapist and author of Money on Your Mind: The Psychology Behind Your Financial Habits, Vicky Reynal.

Why are survivors of sexual assault being cross-examined at trial about the fact that they made a previous disclosure of another sexual offence by a different perpetrator? The Centre for Women’s Justice, Rape Crisis and other women’s groups have launched a campaign to clarify the law around this. Nuala is joined by Katrin Hohl, independent advisor to the government on sexual violence and professor of criminology at City St Georges University in London, who has spent months investigating how and why this is happening.

Liane Child’s novel The Trad Wife’s Secret is inspired by influencers who believe in traditional gender roles in marriage. So is this a wholesome phenomenon or a dangerous and sexist regression? And what is the appeal to the millions of people who follow 'trad wives' online? Liane Child joins Nuala along with British “traditional housewife” and influencer Charlie Gray.

Israel has announced a reprieve in its 11-week blockade of aid into Gaza. Nuala speaks to the BBC’s Paul Adams and Humanitarian Director at Save the Children, Rachael Cummings, to find out more about the impact of this block of aid on women and children.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of ladies swindlers.

0:07.5

Promise never to mention a word of what is going on.

0:10.1

Join me and my all-female team of detectives as we revisit the audacious crimes of women trying to make it in a world made for men.

0:19.5

This is a story of working class women trying to get by.

0:24.4

This is survival.

0:25.3

Join me for the second season of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history with a twist.

0:31.4

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.3

BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:40.3

Hello, this is Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.

0:45.3

It is indeed. Hello and welcome.

0:48.3

Well, in just a few minutes, we're going to hear why some are campaigning for an amendment to the victims' courts and public protection bill when it comes to women reporting more than one sexual offence. Also today, shopping addictions.

1:01.0

They can be trivialised as retail therapy, but the unrelenting craving to purchase items

1:06.5

can severely impact people's lives and their livelihoods. For one woman, it took years before she received a diagnosis of bipolar to help with her addiction.

1:16.8

We'll hear why.

1:18.1

And also what happens when they are trivialized.

1:22.2

Trot wives love them or low them.

1:25.2

They are taking up quite a bit of space on social media. I'm talking

1:28.7

about traditional wives, women who embrace and live by traditional gender roles within marriage,

1:34.5

often prioritising domestic chores or homemaking over external careers. They are hugely

1:40.9

popular. Online, you might have seen the Trad Wives content.

1:45.2

Ballerina Farm is one that comes to mind.

1:48.0

And their curated domesticity can be fun to watch,

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