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Woman's Hour

The housing crisis and women with Vicky Spratt, Rising Covid rates, Christian Peake on Maeve Gilmore

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled his "benefits to bricks" plan to tackle the UK housing crisis - the chronic shortage of homes to rent and buy and climbing property prices. According to the charity Shelter at present across the UK there are currently 17.5 million adults without safe, secure or stable homes. If you include children in this number – it is 1 in 3. A new book Tenants is about people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency – and describes particularly how a shortage of homes is affecting women. The author is journalist Vicky Spratt, housing correspondent for the I newspaper, and she joins Emma in the studio. Covid rates appear to be rising again and some experts are predicting a new wave of the virus over the summer. In the week to 2nd June, 1 in 65 people in the UK were testing positive – up from 1 in 70 the previous week. But do we actually need to worry about it – and if so, what should we be should we be doing to protect ourselves? Emma will be getting the thoughts of Professor Devi Sridhar, who’s chair of global public health at Edinburgh University, and sits on the Scottish Government Covid-19 Advisory Group. Listener Christian Peake was given a huge stack of canvasses painted by her grandmother the artist Maeve Gilmore who had died when Christian was 11 and whose artistic work had been over-shadowed by her more famous husband Mervyn Peake. A busy teacher and mother, Christian didn't really know what to do with them. As time went on though she became increasingly determined to get Maeve’s work the recognition she feels it deserves. She has created an online gallery at maeve_gilmore_archive on Instagram and her grandmother's first exhibition is currently on at Studio Voltaire in Clapham, London. A new report by healthcare charity Doctors of the World reveals that some migrant women have been charged up to £14,000 for NHS maternity services in England. The survey of 257 migrant women - including undocumented, refugee and asylum seeking women - shows that over a third have received a bill for maternity care. The bills range from £296 to £14,000 with half of those receiving a bill being charged more than £7000. To discuss the findings Emma is joined by Anna Miller, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Doctors of the World, and we hear from Kemi, who received a bill for £4900 after having an emergency caesarean section. Apparently, the naked dress is in - catwalk models and celebrities have been wearing dresses with depictions of the female form on them - some have gilded sculpted breasts with prominent nipples. Fashion journalist, Letty Cole gives her thoughts on this eye-catching new fashion trend.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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

0:09.4

Good morning and welcome to the programme. If you were able to listen to Monday's episode,

0:15.1

I did ask how Covid was impacting your life, if at all, and I promised to return to your messages,

0:20.8

which came in in their droves. Well, today is the day and you will hear why. Next,

0:25.8

also on today's programme, as the Housing Secretary prepares to announce the raft of new proposals regarding

0:31.4

renters rights, I'm joined by the Housing Journalist Vicki Spratt, who makes the case in her new book

0:36.8

that Britain's housing emergency is disproportionately affecting women. And I'll be joined by one of you,

0:43.2

a listener who wrote into us about her grandmother's remarkable skill and what she's planning on

0:49.3

doing about it. But also today, we should be trying to understand the latest trend, the naked

0:55.8

dress, more to be revealed soon, quite literally. And talking about whether it makes the person wearing

1:01.8

it, in this case it seems to be largely women feel good, feel sexy, look sexy. And an entirely unrelated

1:09.0

survey by an entirely unbiased over 50s data excite has also caught our eye, linked to this,

1:14.4

showing that 53 is apparently the age of peak sexiness. So I wanted to ask you about this.

1:22.0

First of all, what does sexiness mean to you? How does it feel? When do you feel it? When did you

1:26.1

last feel it? And what age have you felt it the most? If you've got that, yes, of course. You

1:32.2

might not be anywhere near 53 on either side of that. Was it 53 actually? If you can remember it,

1:37.2

maybe you're at that point. Are you feeling sexy? Let me know. I would really like to hear from you

1:43.0

about how this speaks to you. Of course, we were speaking yesterday only about the menopause.

1:47.8

And what that's doing to you, particularly with a view to the workplace, but also some of you

1:52.5

writing in about, of course, how the symptoms have been affecting you. 53, apparently is the age

1:58.5

that we feel sexiest. Does that chime true? Does that ring true with you? If you're under 20s,

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