Talking to your kids about race, HRT shortages, and the demise of the bonkbuster novel
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Talking to your kids about race.
The UK is currently facing a shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). What should you do if your normal supply of HRT tablets, skin patches or gels is unavailable? We hear from GP & menopause specialist Dr Hannah Short.
Plus Jane Garvey visits Kitty's Launderette in Anfield which provides much needed washing facilities in one of Liverpool's most deprived areas. And we ask; Why have so called "bonkbuster" novels fallen out of favour with women - and look at what's taken their place.
Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; Freddie Harrel Guest; Dr Pragya Agarwal Guest; Lauren Milne Henderson Guest; Maisie Lawrence Guest; Sareeta Domingo
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| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey, it's the Woman's Our Podcast Tuesday the 13th of August. podcasts. racism, whoever you are, wherever you live, bonkbusters, maybe they're fading, but erotic fiction is everywhere. |
| 0:57.0 | And what about fan fiction? A full discussion on the podcast today. |
| 1:01.0 | And Liverpool's new community launderet named after the Irish |
| 1:04.7 | immigrant who set up the city's first public wash house. First this morning |
| 1:09.8 | the HRT shortage story rumbles on back in the papers again today. |
| 1:15.1 | What are the facts and actually does anybody know what is causing this? |
| 1:18.6 | I talk to Dr. Hannah Short who's a GP, specialising in the menopause and pre-menstral disorders. |
| 1:25.0 | I asked if there were shortages all over Europe. |
| 1:28.0 | There are a lot of us who kind of work in this area aren't to where that it is really a Europe wide issue. |
| 1:32.0 | It seems to be more of a UK wide issue. |
| 1:34.4 | So I think there's other things going on as well as the manufacturing issues to do with the |
| 1:38.8 | adhesive. The adhesive, what element is that exactly? |
| 1:43.6 | You know you have like an estrogen or a combined HRT patch, |
| 1:47.0 | it's the stuff that will kind of obviously cause that to stick to the skin. |
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