UTI treatment, Being dumped by text, Lighthouse keeper
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Up to half of women will have a UTI at some point in their life. Earlier this year the NHS launched a new awareness campaign which the filmaker and author Kate Muir has criticised for not mentioning vaginal oestrogen as a treatment. Kate joins Krupa Padhy alongside Dr Olivia Hum, a GP who is on the Council of the British Menopause Society.
Dr Ronny Cheung speaks to Krupa about the double-edge sword of children building their immunities in their early years and the disruption caused to working parents and carers. What do parents need to know about caring for a child with seasonal colds and coughs?
Sally Snowman is the last official lighthouse keeper in the United States and at the end of this month she will retire after two decades of service. She's the first and last woman to be the lighthouse keeper for Boston Light in Massachusetts. She joins Krupa to discuss what it's like being a lighthouse keeper and how she feels about leaving it.
We know that Christmas and New Year, although filled with joy for some, can put a really big strain on relationships and it can be a time when people in an unhappy relationship decide to end them. But is there ever a good way to break up a relationship? And is it ever acceptable or kinder to end something by text? Krupa is joined by Olivia Petter, journalist and author of Millennial Love and Vicky Spratt, journalist and documentary maker.
The award winning comedian, writer, playwright and actor Meera Syal – known for her comedy series such as Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars - has been talking to Ros Akins on Radio 4’s Media Show, we can hear some of that interview.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Emma Pearce
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| 0:08.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and in my Just One Long Thing podcast series, I'll be chatting to doctors and scientists |
| 0:15.1 | we'll be covering topics like sleep exercise happiness and staying young with each of |
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| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Women's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Good morning, thank you for being with us. |
| 0:43.0 | The new year is creeping up on us and there's long been a debate about whether January has become the most popular |
| 0:49.6 | month for relationships to end. |
| 0:52.0 | Some even call it break-up season. And we're talking about |
| 0:55.5 | this because of an article we spotted by Kate Kib in Cosmopolitan magazine. In it she writes |
| 1:01.5 | that when it comes to breaking up there is no good way to do it, just |
| 1:05.3 | bad ways and worse ones. But here is what really got us talking. Kate says that doing it |
| 1:11.7 | over text is in her opinion one of the lesser evils when it comes |
| 1:16.1 | to letting a former partner know that they are now single. |
| 1:19.6 | Not only does a text message break up give the heartbroken party the privacy to feel |
| 1:24.4 | whatever messy feelings they need to feel about it it also buys them the time and |
| 1:29.4 | space to process those feelings and express them the way that they want to. |
| 1:34.1 | What do you think? Have you ever been dumped by text or what's that message? |
| 1:38.1 | Or have you ever ended a relationship this way? How we meet our partners is changing. So is it only natural that the way we are |
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