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Woman's Hour

Sister Bliss, DC Comics character, Nubia, the Ockenden Review, Lucy Easthope, Ukrainian MPs, Listener Dorothy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a soundtrack to your life that you return to again and again? Or have music that powers you through? DJ Sister Bliss and Goldsmiths Professor Lauren Stewart, who studies the psychology and neuroscience of music, explore the power of music to affect our mood and well-being. The Ockenden Review was published this week, led by midwife Donna Ockenden, into the maternity care provided to patients by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust over a 20 year period. We hear from Kayleigh Griffiths, who lost her baby in 2016 who fought for years for the Review and Maria Caulfield, the Minister for Primary Care and Patient Safety. In our series Threads we've been talking to listeners about the clothes they've hung on to. Dorothy tells us about a dress she wore age 14 at a barn dance in Hereford . The Women's Diplomatic Battalion of Ukraine, a small group of women MPs have been criss-crossing Europe to garner international support for their war-torn country. Alona Shkrum, from the Batkivschyna party, Olena Khomenko and Mariia Mezentseva, from the Servant of the People party discuss their fight for their country. Have you heard of Nubia from the DC comic books? She’s the adopted sister of Wonder Woman and DC’s first Black superwoman introduced in the 70s before disappearing from comics for decades. Nubia returned last year in a new book. We hear from cartoonist, Robyn Smith who illustrated the book. Whenever there’s a catastrophic event somewhere in the world Lucy Easthope is likely to get a phone call .S he talks about her new book “When the Dust Settles”. Presenter Anita Rani Producer Claire Fox. Photo Credit: BBC/Freemantle Media Limited/Pete Dadds

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.

0:13.0

This is the show where we offer you some of the best and must-hate interviews from across

0:16.9

the week just gone.

0:18.4

Coming up on the programme, we speak to one of the UK's foremost disaster planners.

0:23.0

We were told we couldn't plan for Brexit and a pandemic at the same time.

0:29.0

They were two, it was too ridiculous to think of both happening at the same time.

0:34.0

And so as disaster planners, I think we started to feel very, very stymied in our ability

0:39.9

to go into it.

0:41.3

Three Ukrainian MPs tell us about their fights for their country.

0:44.9

And what kind of music powers you through?

0:46.9

We talked to one very famous DJ about it.

0:49.6

But first, this week we dedicated an entire programme to what's being called the biggest

0:54.8

maternity scandal in the NHS's history.

0:58.1

The Okhenden Review was published on Wednesday, led by senior midwife Donna Okhenden into

1:02.8

the maternity care provided to patients by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

1:08.4

over a 20-year period.

1:10.7

She concluded 201 babies and 9 mothers could have survived if the trust had provided better

1:17.3

care, learned from mistakes, conducted proper investigations and crucially listened to women.

1:24.4

One of the women who fought for years to have this independent review is Kaylee Griffiths.

1:29.6

Having lost her daughter, Pippa, when she was just 31 hours old in 2016, Kaylee was convinced

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