The Prison Doctor, Public Speaking, Holiday Clubs, Contraception & Lockdown
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Theresa May has made a million pounds on the speaker circuit since she stood down as Prime Minister just under a year ago. We discuss how she’s done it and whether she might have a long career ahead of her doing it. Working parents of primary-aged children often rely on out-of-school childcare for the school run and long summer holidays. But thanks to Covid-19, many of these providers are facing an uncertain future. A recent survey by the Out of School Alliance found that 40% of respondents were unsure they’d be able to re-open in September – meaning that around 250,000 childcare places could be at risk. So where will children go if parents have to return to work and grandparents remain off-limits? Dr Amanda Brown has been working as a GP at Bronzefield, a women-only prison since December 2015. She has just written her second book, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside, in which she shares the stories of many of the women she meets inside. Since April, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has seen a 15% rise in consultations for terminations and is now carrying out around 480 a day. What’s access to contraception been like during lockdown and how can we help to support women?
Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Viv Groskop Interviewed guest: Professor Heather McGregor Interviewed guest: Catherine Wrench Interviewed guest: Sue Smith Interviewed guest: Dr Amanda Brown Interviewed guest: Clare Murphy Interviewed guest: Deborah Evans Interviewed guest: Dr Louise Skioldebrand Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and it's the Women's Our Podcast from the 23rd of June |
| 0:45.1 | 2020. Here we go. Hi there good morning to you today. Contraception in |
| 0:49.8 | lockdown. We will talk to Amanda Brown who's a prison doctor. She works at |
| 0:54.4 | Bronzefield Women's Prison in Middlesex. And what is happening to holiday clubs and |
| 0:59.8 | out of school child care? With the summer holidays looming officially, of course some |
| 1:05.0 | some no doubt already underway in Scotland there's plenty to mull over there and |
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| 1:14.7 | email us via our website. First of all, Theresa May has already made a million |
| 1:20.4 | pounds on the speaker circuit since she stood down as Prime Minister. |
| 1:25.0 | Now we know this because she has to register payments in the Commons Register of |
| 1:29.6 | Members Financial Interests. How is she doing it and these big fee-paying events do tend to be |
| 1:37.2 | male-dominated? So how can women make their voices heard? How can we succeed at the public speaking game? |
| 1:44.4 | Because as Theresa May illustrates, it's a very lucrative thing to be good at. We can talk to |
| 1:49.7 | Professor Heather McGregor, Executive Dean at the Edinburgh Business School at Harriet |
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