Singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone. Lockdown family pressures. BPAS not for profit IVF Clinic.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We hear from the singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone who's the runner up in the BBC Sound of 2021.
Caroline Aldridge's eldest son Tim had a bipolar disorder and he passed away before he could access treatment. She’s talks about her book "He Died Waiting " which outlines why she thinks mental health services failed him.
We unveil new data showing the pressures facing families over school closures and managing paid work. Plus why the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has announced it will open a not-for-profit IVF clinic later this year in Central London.
Presenter Andrea Catherwood Producer Beverley Purcell
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello and welcome to the Women's Our Podcast. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Andrea Catharwood. |
| 0:38.1 | Good morning. |
| 0:39.7 | For 50 years, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has been helping women terminate pregnancies. |
| 0:45.7 | Now they're going to help create them. |
| 0:48.3 | It's opening the UK's first not-for-profit IVF clinic. |
| 0:52.0 | I'll be asking their new CEO, Claire Murphy, why? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, yesterday's poetry went down so well on the program that I am hoping you will enjoy |
| 1:00.3 | meeting a young singer and songwriter who began by putting her own poetry to music. |
| 1:06.4 | At just 20 she's already played Glastonbury and has been named runner-up in BBC signed 2021. She says her lyrics must pass the |
| 1:16.1 | tattoo test. We'll be finding out exactly what that means a little bit later. But |
| 1:21.8 | first COVID does not affect us all equally. We know that. The poorest and |
| 1:27.2 | most vulnerable in society have been hardest hit. We've also become used to seeing |
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