Troopers, Billionaires, Postnatal Support

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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TROOPERS is a new series of ours starting today. It's about the women in our communities who get things done, and many of them are volunteers. We begin with Margaret Johnson who works as a volunteer at Chester Storyhouse which is a cinema, theatre and library. She runs the Chatter and Natter group.

We've got more on the Dominic Cummings situation and his trip to Durham. Katy Balls from the Spectator and Helen Lewis from the Atlantic discuss things said in last night's press conference which might have leapt out for women especially.

Following on from yesterday's programme about having a baby during lockdown, today we talk about what postnatal support is there for you. We hear from Linzy Thurlaway who's a midwife, antenatal educator and also runs postnatal and baby massage courses. She founded a Facebook group called Antenatal and Postnatal Education and Support North East. The Sunday Times Rich List 2020 includes a record number of women but it's still only 150 out of 1000 people. The number from BAME backgrounds is even lower. We speak to Annabelle Williams, the author of Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It.

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0:41.0	Hi, this is Jane Garvey. It's the Woman's Our Podcast. It's Tuesday the 26th of May, 2020.
0:47.0	Hi, good morning to you. Today, who wants to be a billionaire? Why are there still so few women
0:52.3	on the Sunday Times Rich list and actually does it matter?
0:56.0	Also today more on post-Natal support particularly of interest I guess if you heard and enjoyed our program yesterday on pregnancy and
1:05.3	birth and life with a newborn during lockdown today you can talk you can hear from
1:10.2	Lindsay Thurlaway she's in the northeast of England and she runs a group to
1:15.2	help women in those months after the birth of a child. So Lindsay's very
1:20.0	interesting, very enthusiastic and she's on Women's Hour today.
1:24.0	First of all, let's have our regular check-in with Katie Balls, deputy political editor at The
1:29.0	Spectator, and Helen Lewis, who's a staff writer for the Atlantic.
1:33.4	We're going to try to sum up everything going on
1:36.0	in the world of politics right now.
1:37.9	Dominic Cummings still in position, Boris Johnson's key advisor.
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