Teachers' strike, Midwife Leah Hazard on the womb, Sexual violence in Ukraine, Best performance by a jumper

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

As teachers strike again over pay this week we talk to the BBC's Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys. As awards season continues we want to know - who should win best performance by a jumper? Mark Darcey’s reindeer jumper? Cameron Diaz’s knitwear in The Holiday? Fashion journalist Naomi Pike talks to Woman’s Hour about the most iconic knitwear in film - and we also hear from the creator of the most talked about jumpers of the moment. Delia Barry is 83 and personally knitted the jumpers you can see in the Oscar-nominated movie ‘Banshees of Inisherin’. She tells Nuala how she came to knit for films, and what it’s like to be the woman behind the new ‘it’ jumper. The laws surrounding fertility treatment and embryo research in the UK have remained largely unchanged for thirty years. Today a new consultation being held by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) opens. They want to hear from people who have been impacted by fertility treatment. Julia Chain, chair of the HFEA, joins Nuala. There have been accusations of Russian soldiers using sexual violence as a weapon of war during the current conflict in Ukraine. Progress is being made to bring the perpetrators to justice, but it’s slow. Nuala is joined by Anna Mykytenko, senior legal advisor to Global Rights Compliance, and Anna Orel, who works for the Andreev Foundation. In her new book Womb - The Inside Story of Where We All Began NHS midwife Leah Hazard seeks to explore the organ she describes as “woefully under-researched and misunderstood”. She shares with Nuala what she has learnt from looking into the womb’s past, present and possible future. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lucinda Montefiore Studio Manager: Gayl Gordon

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello, this is Nula Mugovren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour Podcast.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour, good to have your company.
0:13.4	Well as you were hearing in the news, bulletin, thousands of teachers are on strike this week
0:17.9	across England, Wales and Scotland, so we'll catch up with our BBC Education Editor,
0:22.2	who's in new castle right now at a striker's breakfast, to hear about the state of negotiations.
0:27.6	Now if you're a parent affected by the strikes, we want to hear about their impact on you today.
0:33.3	Please text us 84844. Also today, womb, the inside story of where it all began.
0:40.7	Well I learned so much reading this book from the basics about the size and shape of the uterus.
0:46.4	The amazing feats that it is capable of, that is in addition to gestating a child.
0:52.8	It is a miraculous organ, says the midwife who wrote it, but also misunderstood.
0:58.3	So understanding the womb properly could potentially help with fertility issues,
1:03.0	avoid some miscarriages and also improve women's health all round.
1:07.2	So that is coming up and best performance by a jumper in a film.
1:14.9	Do you have a favourite? Well the banshees of Ineshire and I had some impressive knitwear on
1:19.9	the big screen playing a leading role. We're going to speak to the woman who's behind the knitting
1:25.2	needles that created them. I want to know if you have a favourite jumper from the silver screen
1:30.0	and you know what, I'll even expand it to TV jumpers as well. So if you have a favourite from a show,
1:36.2	do send it in. You can text the program again, that number is 84844.
1:41.4	Text will be charged at your standard message rate. On social media, we're at BBC Women's Hour or
1:46.7	you can email us through our website and instead if you would prefer a WhatsApp message or a
1:51.6	voice note to get in touch, that number is 037001444. But first, two, that more disruption this
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