The impact of the Budget on women, Nuzo Onoh, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Following the announcement of Labour’s first budget in fourteen years – and the first Budget announced by a woman Chancellor – we hear how women across the country will be affected. Anita Rani speaks to Mehreen Khan, the economics editor of The Times, Sara Reis, deputy director and head of research at Women’s Budget Group and Jo, a participant in the Changing Realities project, a collaboration of parents and carers on a low income and researchers from the University of York and Child Poverty Action.

With Halloween upon us, Queen of African Horror Nuzo Onoh joins Anita to talk about her new novel Where the Dead Brides Gather, her journey to getting published and spooky celebrations in Nigeria.

How many of us have grown up with parts of our lives unknown to our parents? Born with a degenerative muscular disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Mats Steen was in a wheelchair by the age of 8, and was in an out of hospital right up until he died at the age of 25. As his family mourned his loss, it emerged that Mats had an online life that his parents knew nothing about. In a new Netflix documentary, his mother Trude, his father Robert and his sister Mia describe what it was like to discover Mats' secret world. Trude joins Anita to discuss.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Laura Northedge

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.0	I'm Siddhartha Cesset, an assistant commissioner of Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.0	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of
0:13.7	podcasts on all sorts of subjects, relationships, identity, comedy, even one
0:18.9	that mixes poetry, music and inner city life. So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next
0:26.1	fact checking, a feature and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its
0:31.5	audience and maybe that's you. So if you like this
0:34.6	podcast check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.
0:43.0	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womens Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:48.0	Good morning and happy the Valle. Welcome to Womens Hour.
0:51.0	We'll be discussing another book genre today with Newso Oh no known as the Queen of African Horror.
0:56.5	She'll be telling us all about her new book, Where the Dead Brides Gather.
1:00.5	I watched an extraordinary documentary on Netflix The Remarkable Life of Ebelin.
1:06.0	It's about the life of Matt Steen whose degenerative disease meant he was a wheelchair user from the age of eight.
1:12.4	Matt's passed away at only 25,
1:15.0	and it was then that his family discovered
1:16.6	what a rich life he had led all online
1:19.4	through his gaming world.
1:20.6	It's both heartbreaking and uplifting, Matt's mother, Truday, will be joining me to
1:26.1	tell us all about her wonderful son. Also, it was a historic day in the halls of Powe yesterday,
1:32.0	the first ever female
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