The future of IVF. Self-love. Reclaim These Streets judicial review. ENB's Tamara Rojo.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Scientists from the University of Edinburgh are preparing to begin testing a new IVF treatment which could allow women to freeze their eggs at a much younger age and increase the likelihood of successful pregnancies in older women. Professor Evelyn Telfer, chair of reproductive biology at the University discusses how this research could change fertility treatment in the future. We hear from artist Tracey Emin about why she she wants an artwork she donated to the government’s art collection removed from display in Number 10 Downing Street. and following Christian Wakeford's defection to the the Labour Party Anna Soubry, who left the Conservative Party to sit as part of a group of independent MPs which later went on to become Change UK ,shares what it's like to defect and whether it works out politically. The world-renowned ballet dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo, joins us following her decision to step down from her role after ten years to become the artistic director of San Francisco Ballet, Today the High Court hears the judicial review brought by Reclaim These Streets. They are challenging the Metropolitan Police’s handling of a vigil - in memory of Sarah Everard, and in opposition to violence against women. Reclaim These Streets co-founder Anna Birley tells us why they're seeking the review. . Plus do you practice self-love? If so how, do you do it? ‘Thirty Things I Love About Myself’ is a new comedic novel by Radhika Sanghani. It's inspired her own journey to loving herself – culminating in not one but two nude portraits of herself front and centre in her home. Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.6	Hello and welcome to the programme. Good to be back with you after a few days of ill
0:14.4	health. I've missed our conversations, especially ones which would begin with me asking you
0:18.9	this. Would you ever commission a nude portrait of yourself? One of my guests today, the author
0:24.0	and journalist Radica Sangania, has not one but two naked paintings of herself in her
0:28.8	home, created on her mission to love herself more. Her mother apparently thinks it's vain,
0:34.4	but such acts have helped Radica disrupt that negative loop in her head about herself.
0:38.8	So would you do it? A nude painting? How would you pose? Legs to Kimbo? Legs together? Arms
0:45.1	above the head? Where would you hang it? Or would you see it as an act of vanity? What's
0:49.0	the vainest thing you've done? And perhaps it's helped. Share and bear all here with me
0:54.4	on Woman's Hour this morning. 84844. That's the number you can text me on. I could
0:58.5	already see one of my guests wintzing on social media at our at BBC Woman's Hour. Also
1:03.7	on today's programme, Tamara Rojo, the legendary ballet dancer and now outgoing artistic director
1:09.0	of the English National Ballet will be here to talk about 10 years of her reign with the
1:13.7	English National Ballet. One of the women behind that Sarah Everard vigil ahead of a court
1:18.2	hearing in which she's taking on the Met Police and we're going to be talking about the
1:22.3	psychology of defecting from one political party to another by a woman who did it. But
1:28.0	first, the artist Tracy Mn, one of our most successful and well-known female artists,
1:33.7	so she wants an artwork she donated to the government's art collection, removed from
1:37.9	display in number 10 Downing Street, posting on Instagram yesterday because the current
1:42.6	situation as she puts it is shameful. She's talking about more here, more from her, I suppose,
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