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Woman's Hour

Trisha Goddard, HIV prevention, Family favourites, Air pollution

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Trisha Goddard rose to fame as a TV journalist. She was the first black TV presenter in Australia and is best known in the UK for her eponymous TV show which aired on ITV and Channel 5 in the late 90s and 2000s, earning her a reputation as the British Oprah. She joins Anita to talk about her career, appearing on Celebrity Big Brother and why she chose recently to go public with her diagnosis for stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.

Air pollution kills more than 500 people a week in the UK and costs more than 500 million pounds a week in ill health, according to a new report, "A breath of fresh air," by the Royal College of Physicians. The report highlights growing evidence about health issues linked to toxic air and calls it “a public health crisis”. Today, a group of doctors, nurses and campaigners are walking from Great Ormond Street Hospital to Downing Street with a letter calling on government ministers to commit to more ambitious air quality targets. Anita talks to two of them, Rosamund Kissi Debrah, whose daughter Ella became the first person in the UK to have air pollution cited on their death certificate and Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, co author of today's report.

Only 3.1% of PREP users in England are women. That's Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, a drug that reduces the risk of being infected with HIV. Many women don’t know that PREP exists, or don’t consider themselves at risk. Yet women accounted for 30% of new HIV diagnoses in England in 2023. Today, the Elton John AIDS Foundation is launching pilot programmes to increase women's access to PREP. Anita is joined by Dr Jenny Whetham, Consultant and Joint Clinical Lead, Sexual Health and HIV Medicine, Brighton and Anne Aslett, CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation

The clever one. The funny one. The beautiful one. But which one is The Favourite? Set over a single week, but examining the highs and lows that define a family over the decades, this book is a story of rivalries and long-held resentments, about loss and grief and blame – and love. Fran Littlewood – also author of New York Times bestseller Amazing Grace Adams talks to Anita about her new novel.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is love?

0:03.0

Is it chemistry, fate or a disaster waiting to happen?

0:07.0

Sometimes you mistake other things for love.

0:10.0

Join me, Ryland, on my new podcast as I ask experts and a few familiar faces what love really means.

0:16.3

Because it turns out it's a bit more complicated than happily ever after.

0:20.7

You should think of it as the daily commitment you make to someone that you care about.

0:25.2

Ryland, how to be in love. Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.1

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:35.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.4

Good morning and welcome to the program.

0:43.3

Tricia Goddard was the first black woman on Australian television and the queen of UK daytime.

0:49.0

In the late 90s and early 2000s, you may have seen her most recently in the Celebrity Big Brother

0:54.1

House speaking very frankly

0:55.8

about living with stage 4 cancer. Well, Tricia is here and will be telling us all about

1:01.2

her extraordinary life. The Royal College of Physicians warns that 99% of the population

1:07.7

breathes toxic air. This morning, a letter is being delivered to Downing Street

1:12.0

calling on the government to commit to air quality targets. We will be talking also about a new

1:17.7

pilot scheme focused on HIV prevention for women. And, this is for all of you, are you the

1:24.7

favourite child? Do you have a favourite child? Today we're talking to Fran Littlewood about her new book called The Favorite. It's about three sisters in their 40s who without giving away any spoilers realise that one of them is favoured over the others. Is this something you can relate to? Have you been brought up in the shadow of a sibling

1:44.8

or two? And what effect has it had on you? Do you know you prefer one child more than the other

1:50.3

and you try and hide it? A lot of South Asian women of a certain generation will know what it

1:55.1

means to grow up as a daughter and treated like a second-class citizen. But what effect does it

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