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Woman's Hour

The Cumberlege Review, Motherless daughters, Women in the video games industry

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A highly-critical review of three medical treatments for women in the UK found thousands of lives had been harmed because officials failed to listen to safety worries and often dismissed them as "women's problems". The Cumberlege Review examined responses to concerns about a hormone pregnancy test, a drug for epilepsy, and vaginal mesh. We spoke to the BBC Health correspondent Anna Collinson, and to Baroness Cumberlege about her review. And we heard reaction from Clare Pelham, CEO of the Epilepsy Society, and Mary McLaughlin, who has campaigned for women affected by pelvic mesh in Ireland.

The video games sector makes up more than half of the UK’s entire entertainment market. Women are 50% of those who play but the number of women working in the industry is much lower. Jordan Erica Webber, a video games expert, Katie Goode, who makes VR games, and Abbey Plumb, a producer for a games company discussed their experiences of working in the video games industry.

It’s 1957 and Jean Swinney, a journalist on a local paper in the London suburbs, is investigating a story about a virgin birth. As she gets closer to the people involved Jean’s lonely and dutiful life becomes more interesting and she experiences a miracle of her own. Clare Chambers’ book ‘Small Pleasures’ is her first for 10 years and it was an item on Woman’s Hour which sparked the idea.

After the death of her mother, Emma Winterschladen has gone through what she calls ‘missed mum moments’ including graduating university, her first job and more recently her engagement. How do motherless daughters navigate these big moments without their mothers? Freelance Editor, writer & illustrator Emma Winterschladen and psychologist Anjula Mutanda discuss.

Twenty year old student Abigail McGourlay is the winner of The Arts Society’s national Isolation Artwork competition. She told us about her winning self-portrait 'Brewing'.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

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telly we share what we've been watching

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Fladiated.

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

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BBC Sounds Music Radio, radio podcasts.

0:34.6

Hi, good afternoon.

0:35.4

Welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour.

0:38.0

This week, what it's like when your mom dies

0:41.0

when you're very young,

0:42.1

and you have to navigate all life's milestones

0:45.3

without maternal support.

0:47.3

Within the last month I got engaged and after the weekend of emoji filled

0:53.4

whatsaps and social distance barbecues,

0:56.5

I found myself actually sitting on a Monday evening

0:59.2

and it really, really hit me.

1:01.5

And I just, you know, quite simply I just really missed mum.

1:04.4

Well not surprisingly there was a big reaction to that item and you can hear it on

1:08.8

weekend woman's hour this week. We'll also talk to Claire Chambers, the novelist, about her latest novel, Small Pleasures.

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