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Woman's Hour

Suranne Jones, Housing, Eating disorders, Physicist Professor Dame Athene Donald

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Bafta-winning actor Suranne Jones is back on our screens with Maryland, a three-part drama about two sisters discovering that their mother was leading a secret life. Suranne, who plays the younger sister Becca, is also executive producer on the series. She joins Hayley to explain how the idea, which came to her in a dream, made it onto the small screen. A new law to be tabled in Parliament today would abolish no-fault evictions and make it illegal for landlords to refuse tenancies to those in receipt of benefits, as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England. Housing campaigners said the bill was a "huge opportunity" to improve the lives of the 11 million renters in England - but its still doesnt go far enough to help many renters, 40% of which are women. Melissa York, the assistant property editor at The Times and The Sunday Times & Polly Neate, Chief Exectuive of Shelter. Psychiatrists say they’re worried that some people with eating disorders are being offered palliative care, warning it is not a terminal illness and most people can recover. Carolyn Atkinson reports and Hayley talks to mental health campaigner Hope Virgo. Hayley talks to scientist and academic Athene Donald about her new book Not Just for the Boys which examines the historic societal exclusion of women from science and the systemic disadvantages women in science operate under. She looks at the common myths that science isn't creative and that it is carried out by a lone genius in an ivory tower, offering her perspective on what progress has been made, and how more is needed.

Presenter: Hayley Hassall Producer: Lucinda Montefiore Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Haley Hassel and welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:08.4

Good morning and welcome to the program.

0:11.2

Now our first guest this morning is the fantastic actor and producer, Seran Jones, who's here

0:16.3

to tell me all about her new drama, Marylund, which hits our TV screens next week.

0:22.3

It's an intense look into the lives of two sisters whose world is literally turned upside-down

0:28.0

when they find out a secret about their mum.

0:30.9

We'll have more on that later and how Seran came up with the concept in the first place.

0:36.6

But it got us all thinking here on Woman's Hour that this could be something maybe you

0:40.3

could relate to.

0:41.5

Have you found out a secret about your parents that you never knew when you were younger?

0:46.3

Maybe like in Marylund, you found out that your mum had a secret or maybe you've discovered

0:50.8

a sibling that you never knew about or maybe it's something more like hearted.

0:55.2

I remember my friend at school always thought his parents were actors and presumed that

0:59.5

when they went out for the evening they were performing their plays, he couldn't believe

1:03.1

it when he was 18 and he found out they were strippers.

1:06.1

Imagine learning that over the breakfast table.

1:08.4

Well, honestly, I'd love to hear your stories.

1:10.4

You can text the show on 848-44 or you can send us a message of course to 03-700-100-444.

1:18.7

Now as the rental reform bill goes into the Parliament table today, promises are being

1:23.4

made to ban no fault evictions.

1:26.2

However, it still doesn't stop landlords increasing the rent to force evictions and with

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