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Woman's Hour

Ukraine sponsorship, Quizzes, Matrilineal communities, Anorexia and sectioning, Public hair loss, Trapezing

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Many people are having positive life-affirming experiences of hosting Ukrainian refugees but we have also been contacted by some listeners who are having a trickier time and feel not much is being said publicly about when these situations go wrong. Listener Jane tells us about her experience of taking in a Ukrainian student. We also hear from Dr Krish Kandiah, founder of the charity Sanctuary Foundation. Roz Unwin shared her passion for quizzing. She took it up over lockdown, and now runs her own quizzes in North London. She joined Emma, along with Alice Walker, who was crowned this year’s Mastermind Champion. We look at matrilineal communities who trace kinship through the female line and can involve the inheritance of property and titles with Woman’s Hour listener and Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History at the University of Hull, Joy Porter and Dr. Mariaelena Huambachano, Environmental Humanities, Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. Listener Freya shares her experience of having anorexia and being sectioned, and coming out the other side. Liz emailed to tell us about the unusual way she keeps fit: on a trapeze. She explains how it changed her life, along with Katy Kartwheel - an actress and circus performer, who also teaches aerial skills to people of all ages. And a listener asked us to raise awareness of a less publicised aspect of the menopause - pubic hair loss. Emma finds out more from the Chair of the Menopause Society Paula Briggs and the Sex Therapist Stella Sonnenbaum. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.0

Hello, I'm Jessica Criton, welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:08.4

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.

0:10.8

Now this week was Listener Week, where all the stories were suggested by you.

0:15.6

Now in a moment we'll hear one woman's experience of hosting a Ukrainian refugee student,

0:20.8

also a personal story of having anorexia and being sectioned and coming out the other side.

0:26.8

What can we learn from matrilineal communities where women take the lead?

0:30.9

Plus, pubic hair loss in the menopause, the joy of quizzes and taking up the trapeze.

0:36.9

What a mix that is.

0:39.0

But first, this week the refugees minister, Lord Harrington,

0:42.5

has made a plea to the treasury to double the money given to families hosting Ukrainian refugees.

0:48.0

He fears that the cost of living may lead to a quarter of the 25,000 host households

0:53.4

pulling out of the scheme at the end of October when the initial six months is up.

0:58.2

Now many people are having positive, life-affirming experiences,

1:02.0

such as Judith Hutchinson from Hampshire,

1:04.2

who came on the programme back in May to talk about taking in Oksana Melluschuk and her two children.

1:10.0

But we've also heard from some listeners that they're having a trickier time

1:14.0

because of money pressures, but also because of personal clashes.

1:17.9

And they feel that not much is being said publicly about when these situations go wrong.

1:22.8

Jane got in contact with us this week and spoke to Emma about taking in a refugee student.

1:28.0

My husband and I were in our 50s, we've got two grown-up children who don't live at home anymore.

1:32.6

We had the room and I just thought, I can do that. That is something I can do.

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