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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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We hear a lot about the pressures boys and young men are under and how many of them are looking to the online world - or manosphere as it's sometimes called - to find answers. Prompted by the drama Adolescence on Netflix, the topic has been in the news regularly in recent weeks. This week the Women and Equalities Select Committee heard evidence on the manosphere. Anita Rani is joined by Will Adolphy, who was a dedicated follower of the manosphere until, in his mid 20s, he had a breakdown. He went offline for five years and rebuilt his life. He is now a psychotherapist, coach, and goes to schools to speak about healthy masculinity.
This week ITV has announced a shake up of the scheduling and production of its popular daytime shows including Lorraine, Loose Women and Good Morning Britain. Whilst Good Morning Britain will be extended, both Lorraine and Loose Women will see their number of shows cut. Entertainment journalist and expert on all-things TV Scott Bryan unpicks why this is happening.
The Bombing of Pan Am 103 – is a new BBC factual drama series. Based on the true story of the bombing of a passenger flight over a small Scottish town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988, in which 270 people were killed. Kathryn Turman was Assistant to a federal Senator at the time of the bombing. After the trial she joined the FBI where she founded the agency’s first ever Victim Services Division. Her experience in the aftermath of the Pan Am bombing proved invaluable to the FBI’s response to the 9/11 attacks, and she has aided victims and families throughout major moments in history including the Las Vegas shooting and the Boston marathon bombing. She discusses her mission to help victims, and what inspired her work in public service.
Next month marks three years since the journalist and host of BBC's You, Me and the Big C podcast Deborah James - known to many as Bowel Babe - died, aged 40, five years after her stage four bowel cancer diagnosis. Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer type and cause of cancer death for women. Since the early 1990s, the incidence rate in women aged 25-49 has increased by almost 60%. Bowel cancer is treatable if diagnosed early. Heather James, Deborah’s mother, is fulfilling a promise to her daughter and continuing with Deborah’s awareness-raising work - she and Michelle Mitchell, Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, are in the Woman's Hour studio.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey
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0:00.0 | Hello, it's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of ladies swindlers. |
0:07.5 | Promise never to mention a word of what is going on. |
0:10.1 | Join me and my all-female team of detectives as we revisit the audacious crimes of women trying to make it in a world made for men. |
0:19.5 | This is a story of working class women trying to get by. |
0:24.4 | This is survival. |
0:25.3 | Join me for the second season of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history with a twist. |
0:31.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:36.3 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
0:40.5 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:45.9 | Good morning and welcome to the program. |
0:48.3 | We have Heather James on the program today. |
0:50.9 | Heather is the mother of Dame Deborah James or bowel babe, who died |
0:55.5 | from bowel cancer nearly three years ago. But not before she did everything in her power |
1:00.7 | to raise awareness of the disease. Now Heather is continuing the work of her daughter. |
1:05.8 | The charity has raised an extraordinary amount of money, around £17 million. Their initial target was 250,000. We're going to be |
1:14.3 | talking about how the funds are being used, but also remembering Deborah. So this morning, |
1:19.3 | we want to hear about how you remember your loved ones who are no longer with us. Do you have a |
1:24.6 | ritual on the anniversary of their death? Do you wear their favourite scent? Is there an album or a song that reminds you of them? Have you continued the work |
1:32.4 | that they started, kept their legacy going? How do you celebrate their life and how does this |
1:37.9 | in turn help you? I'm going to France at the beginning of next week and I will be having a |
1:41.9 | baguette fight in honour of my uncle gov. |
1:44.9 | It's an in joke. |
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