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Woman's Hour

United Arab Emirates launches its first ever mission to Mars. Author Dorothy Koomson. Visiting care homes

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Tomorrow the United Arab Emirates will launch its first ever mission to Mars. The probe, called Hope, aims to give the most complete picture yet of the Martian atmosphere – and will cement the UAE’s role as a space-exploring nation. We talk to Her Excellency Sarah Al-Miri Minister of State for Advanced Sciences and the Deputy Mission Project Manager for the Emirates Mars Mission and Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Theoretical physicist and presenter of The Life Scientific.

Ghislaine Maxwell will appear in court in Manhattan on Tuesday charged with recruiting girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. She’s always denied any wrongdoing, and has also denied knowing that he was doing anything wrong. But if we looks back over the decades, news coverage of women accused of aiding and abetting men in their crimes, especially if sexual abuse is involved, has provoked some double-standard reactions. We hear from Baroness Helena Kennedy and Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist Naomi Murphy

Leading charities say relatives of care home residents with dementia should be treated as key workers. In a letter to the health secretary, they say that the care given by family members is "essential" to residents' mental and physical health. We hear from listener Sara McMahon about the impact not benig able to visit her dad has had on his condition.

Plus Dorothy Koomson discusses her new novel All My Lies Are True, sequel to the bestselling The Ice Cream Girls, about two teenage girls accused of the murder of their teacher.

Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest; Baroness Helena Kennedy Guest; Naomi Murphy Guest; Her Excellency Sarah Al-Miri Guest; Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Guest; Dorothy Koomson

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.2

This is the Woman's Hour Podcast.

0:07.4

Hi there, good morning.

0:08.4

Welcome to another week on Woman's Hour.

0:10.4

Today we have a new novel from Dorothy Cumson with us, it's called All My Lies are True

0:16.0

and it's the sequel to her previous book, The Ice Cream Girls.

0:20.5

A lot of people were desperate for a sequel, now they've got one.

0:24.1

Also today we'll be exploring what it's like to be the child of somebody with dementia

0:29.5

now when visiting a care home can be extremely difficult.

0:34.4

Visiting has been opened up up to a point but it's still limited and you still might feel

0:39.3

that actually getting a chance to spend time with your mum or your dad or whoever it might

0:44.0

be is a little challenging.

0:45.8

So let us know what you think.

0:47.0

We're talking to one listener who is going through real guilt about all this on the program

0:51.5

this morning at BBC Women's Hour on Twitter or you can email the program via our website

0:57.0

as ever.

0:58.4

Now, tomorrow, Elaine Maxwell will appear in court in Manhattan via video link from

1:03.0

jail for a bail hearing.

1:05.3

She was arrested last week and charged with recruiting girls for Jeffrey Epstein to

1:09.4

sexually abuse.

1:11.2

She denies any wrongdoing and has also denied knowing that he was doing anything wrong.

1:16.9

Jeffrey Epstein died in jail in 2019.

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