meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Woman's Hour

Suranne Jones, Karen Millen, Eating disorders, Men and contraception, Kissing

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Psychiatrists say they’re worried that some people with eating disorders are being offered palliative care. They say an eating disorder is not a terminal illness and most people can recover. Our reporter Carolyn Atkinson speaks to two women who currently have an eating disorder, and reports on what charities and professionals are saying about recover, and Hayley talks to mental health campaigner Hope Virgo about her experience.

Karen Millen started setting up her fashion brand just after she left college. She later sold the business, and made millions. Now, 20 years later, she’s back working for the company, creating a new collection. Anita speaks to her about what happened in between, and how it feels to be back.

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 plays the younger sister Becca. She joins Hayley to explain how the idea, which came to her in a dream, made it onto the small screen.

A new study suggests that humans kissing may have started more than a thousand years earlier than was previously thought. Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen from the University of Oxford joins Anita to talk through what it means, and how the investigation came about because of a conversation at the dinner table.

Are men responsible for unwanted pregnancies? 'Ejaculate Responsibly: The conversation We Need to Have about Men and Contraception' is a stirring manifesto by American writer and award-winning blogger Gabrielle Blair, who thinks they are. According to Gabrielle, if you boil it right down all unwanted pregnancies are caused by irresponsible ejaculations. She joins Hayley to discuss her argument.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lottie Garton

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.4

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

0:11.0

Hello and welcome to all of you. This is Weekend Woman's Hour with me and Anita Rani.

0:16.2

This is the episode of the programme each week where we gather together the best bits from

0:20.5

the last five days and put them all into one handy place just for you.

0:25.4

I'm going up this afternoon. I want to get better but I have lost all hope in getting

0:30.2

better, I'd say. I don't feel like I can get better and I don't think I ever will get

0:34.8

better. I wrote down that I wanted part of care but not because I wanted to die just

0:40.9

because I wanted this torture to stop.

0:43.7

We've been taking a look into eating disorders and the options for recovery. It's a tough

0:48.4

lesson but we want to emphasise that there is hope. Plus, Karen Millen, the woman behind

0:54.0

the fashion brand with the same name. She's going back to her company 20 years after selling

0:58.7

it. We'll hear what that journey's been like and Seran Jones, star of visual and doctor

1:03.8

foster, tells us about her brand new project, Maryland.

1:07.6

Amarie, who's the writer and myself are of our sister's ages in the piece and yeah, we've

1:13.4

got a lot to say and then the mother and obviously Stokka Channin, who's the mother's age,

1:17.7

they're in their 70s. We've lived a life and we've got a lot to say and I think hopefully

1:22.5

that is another kind of tick for the show that we're just showing another perspective.

1:28.0

So are you sitting comfortably, got yourself a drink? Then let's begin.

1:32.5

This morning, the UK's first ever march took place for those affected by eating disorders.

1:38.4

It was held in Trafalgar Square in London and there was also a rally calling for improvement

1:43.1

in eating disorder services. While the Royal College of Psychiatrists has told women's

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.