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Woman's Hour

Smart phones and tracking children, The Traitors, Regulating Botox

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

To track or not to track? Now that technology on our phones makes it so easy, many parents are tracking their children’s whereabouts. If children don’t have a smart phone, many people use a GPS tracker device do to the same thing. There are even children’s trainers available with a special slot to insert the device. But have we thought about the reasons why? What are the benefits or dangers of tracking children, and if you do track, at what point do you stop? Anita Rani is joined by Clare Fernyhough and Esther Walker.

Some fat dissolving agents and skin rejuvenation treatments being injected into women currently have the ‘same regulatory classification as ball-point pens’. That’s according to evidence heard by the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee as part of a new inquiry into the potential harms of hair and beauty products and treatments. Thousands of women could be potentially experiencing harm from these products and going undocumented. Ashton Collins, co-founder of Save Face, the register for safe medical aesthetic practitioners, and Victoria Brownlie, chief policy and sustainability officer at The British Beauty Council join Anita.

The latest series of The Traitors has sparked controversy after two black women, Netty and Judy, were the first to leave – one ‘murdered’ by the Traitors and the other banished at the roundtable. The debate goes beyond the game- is it exposing unconscious bias and raising bigger questions? Do reality TV shows like this hold up a mirror to society, revealing uncomfortable truths around racism, misogyny, and ageism? Author and arts columnist at the Independent Micha Frazer-Carroll and freelance writer Chloe Laws, who have both written on this topic and are both fans of the show, discuss.

A group of religious leaders and a Member of Parliament in The Gambia have tabled a bill seeking to overturn the country’s ban on female genital mutilation or FGM. The matter is now before the country’s Supreme Court and is due to resume later this month. The case follows reports that two baby girls bled to death after undergoing FGM in the country last year. Rights groups have condemned the move, describing it as a violation. One of those groups is the African Women's Rights Advocates - we hear from Mam Lisa Camara from the group, along with BBC Correspondent for West Africa Thomas Naadi, based in Accra.

And we nod to Claudette Colvin, who helped end racial segregation in the US by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Alabama. She has died at the age of 86. Her protest and subsequent arrest was largely unknown until the details were included in a book in 2009. Far more well known is an event that happened nine months later when Rosa Parks famously defied the bus laws.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenner, and good news,

0:09.5

Your Dead to Me, is back for a new series.

0:11.6

Here we go.

0:12.1

Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Mary Beard and Patton Oswald.

0:16.9

I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire.

0:38.6

We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dolion with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Wozniak and Riaena. I'm excited. You're dead to me. The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:44.0

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

0:46.3

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:48.1

Are you watching Traitors?

0:57.3

Well, what does the series and other reality TV formats for that matter reveal about society and who we judge and how we judge them.

1:04.2

The first ever series of Big Brother launched in the year 2000, the original social experiment reality TV series.

1:05.5

That's dated some of us.

1:10.4

But if we look across so many others, like Love Island, I'm a Celebrity, Strictly and Traitors, are underlying

1:11.7

prejudices exposed? If you've already thought about this and have an opinion, get in touch.

1:17.3

Also, female genital mutilation, or FGM, has been banned in the Gambia since 2015, but now

1:24.6

a group of religious leaders and an MP are wanting to overturn the ban.

1:29.5

We'll be finding out why.

1:31.5

And would you track your child?

1:34.7

Do you already do it?

1:36.2

Why?

1:36.9

Is it for your own peace of mind?

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