Top Girls, Dame Glenys Stacey, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dame Glenys Stacey is stepping down as HM Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales at the end of May. In her last annual report she was deeply critical of the Probation services saying that privatising offender management was "irredeemably flawed". She looks back at nearly forty years in public service.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a condition which can lead to severe depression, anxiety and personality change, leaving sufferers feeling suicidal and desperate every month. It is sometimes mis-diagnosed as mental ill health and is estimated to affect 5% of menstruating women. Paula Briggs, a consultant in Reproductive and Sexual health is leading a study looking a new treatments for PMDD.
Fifty years ago today (17th April)) a 21-year-old woman from Northern Ireland, Bernadette Devlin, became Britain's youngest ever female MP and the third youngest MP ever when she was elected to Westminster in a by-election in the Mid-Ulster constituency. Historian, Dr Margaret Ward explains why her election was a seismic event at the time.
Top Girls, the iconic feminist play by Caryl Churchill is currently on stage at the National Theatre in London. Three actors from the cast join Jenni to discuss why the play made such an impact when it was first performed in 1982 and how relevant it is today.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Interviewed guest: Dame Glenys Stacey Interviewed guest: Dr Paula Briggs Interviewed guest: Katherine Kingsley Interviewed guest: Lucy Black Interviewed guest: Liv Hill Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:35.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to Wednesdays edition of the Women's Our Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Top Girls, Carol Churchill's play set at the height of the Thatcher era is being performed for the first time at the National Theatre. |
| 0:49.0 | Three of the women playing leading roles discussed the impact it made in 1982 and how well it stood the impact it made in 1982 and how well it stood the |
| 0:56.0 | test of time. 50 years ago today a 21-year-old Northern Irish politician became |
| 1:01.8 | Britain's youngest ever female MP. |
| 1:05.2 | What happened to Bernadette Devlin? |
| 1:08.2 | And a condition known as PMDD, pre-M menstrual dysphoric disorder. Why is it so much harder to deal with than PMT and what |
| 1:17.7 | help might a new trial offer to women who suffer? |
| 1:20.9 | Now you may remember late last year we spoke to Dame Glenys Stacy, |
| 1:25.8 | her majesty's chief inspector for probation, about the number of women who were being |
| 1:30.5 | recalled to prison after release. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, last month she delivered her annual report in which she was critical of the |
| 1:38.0 | probation service and described the privatization of the management of offenders as irredeemably flawed. |
| 1:46.1 | Well now she's stepping down from the role despite having been offered the chance of serving |
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