The vegan stock car racing driver Leilani Münter, Lynne O'Donnell, Abortion stories

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The BBC’s first Green Sport Awards has announced the winner of its Evergreen Award. Leilani Münter is an American former professional stock car racing driver whose environmental activism has been central to her career. Leilani used her race car as “a 200mph billboard” to get environmental messages in front of the 75 million race fans in the USA. Leilani joins Emma. A new reoprt by MPs says the NHS in england is facing its worst staffing crisis in history. Women make up 77% of NHS staff. Dame Jane Dacre is a Professor from UCL Medical School and contributed to the report joins Emma alongside Dr Radhika Vohra who is a GP and menopause specialist. It’s almost a year since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan. Lynne O’Donnell has years of experience reporting from the country and decided to return earlier this month. She says she was detained, abused and threatened by the Taliban. Lynne is safely out of Afghanistan and joins Emma Barnett. Following the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US more women have talked about having had an abortion but many never speak openly about their experiences. In a series first broadcast in 2019 we hear five different personal testimonies from women. Today, a woman who felt her mental health was at risk when she found she was pregnant 10 months after the birth of her third child. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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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.
0:10.7	Good morning and welcome to the programme. It is good to be back after a week away.
0:15.7	And a new Prime Minister is in the offing I hear. Now there are two in the race with
0:19.6	one being the Minister of State for Women and Equality's, no less. We shall see and
0:24.0	hear and watch the first BBC debates this evening. Their first head-to-head, Rishi Sunak
0:28.8	and Liz Truss. My colleagues looking after that tonight on TV and on the radio, it should
0:33.9	be very interesting indeed. But regardless of the battle lines being drawn up by Sunak
0:39.4	and Truss' respective campaign teams, NHS staffing in England has been catapulted today
0:45.3	onto the national agenda and should be many argue top of a new leader's intray. This
0:51.1	is because of a new MP's report which says the NHS in England is facing its worst staffing
0:57.2	crisis in history. It found England is now short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than
1:03.0	50,000 nurses and midwives. Calling this the worst workforce crisis in the NHS's history.
1:12.2	Women make up 77% of NHS staff, 77%. So if you're listening to this, perhaps you are
1:20.2	working a night shift, maybe you're not working today, maybe you're about to go in or
1:23.4	maybe you're listening to this later. I'd like to hear from you. How is it on the ground?
1:29.4	If you are working in the NHS, if you are trying to deliver whatever service it is, you
1:34.2	are tasked with. What is it like? Of course last week the government published its Women's
1:39.4	Health Strategy. But you could argue what is the point in one if there are fewer and fewer
1:44.2	people to deliver it? Or if those who are there are not in a situation where perhaps
1:49.4	they feel the healthiest themselves. There are many, many questions around this and there
1:54.8	are also your insights. So please do get in touch with me this morning to let me know
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