Under Pressure, Julia Chain, Hyaluronidase
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In our series Under Pressure we've been looking at what happens to relationships when couples are put under extreme strain: how do they cope? Today we hear from Kate and Annie who live in Northumberland.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. In March, Julia Chain was announced as the new chair of the HFEA. Now Julia is calling for the 1990 Human Fertilization and Embryology Act to be updated. She joins Emma to discuss the changes she wants to see.
We talk to Deborah Bull and Jill Baldock about how dancing can lift your mood.
A report out today from the Institute for Fiscal Studies says there's been 'almost' no progress towards closing the gender pay gap in the last 25 years. Professor Lucinda Platt, who's on the panel of the IFS Deaton Inequalities review, and who researches inequality at the London School of Economic, explains why not.
If your facial fillers aren’t to your liking, or worse injected in a dangerous spot, you can get them dissolved with a substance called hyaluronidase. But women are reporting nasty side effects including swelling, tissue loss, burning sensations and headaches. A cosmetic surgeon, Daniel Ezra, is studying this to try to establish exactly what's going on. We hear from him as well as our reporter Melanie Abbott.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to today's programme, Monday morning is here again and for some |
| 0:45.0 | today's program Monday morning is here again and for some of you another week will mean not |
| 0:46.8 | being pregnant again and forgive me for going right in but when you're struggling |
| 0:50.4 | with infertility it's all you can think about Monday morning right |
| 0:54.2 | through until Sunday evening and so it goes on and on every conversation is |
| 1:00.6 | blighted by it in some way especially those with friends and family members |
| 1:03.8 | perhaps telling you they are pregnant and while you wish you could be happy for |
| 1:07.7 | them you're struggling to be not because you're a bad person but because you simply |
| 1:11.7 | cannot achieve what seems so easy for everyone else. |
| 1:15.8 | Those conversations really knock the wind out of you as you try to feign some kind of happiness. |
| 1:21.1 | And yes, you are mindful that there are plenty of other complications and heartache |
| 1:24.9 | that people go through and have on the way to having children. Even if you're in a situation where perhaps |
| 1:31.2 | you can relate to this or it was a long time ago. |
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