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Woman's Hour

Vapes, Phoebe Dynevor and Amelia Earhart's legacy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence that vapes are being used to groom children into sexual or criminal exploitation. Last week, the Prime Minister announced that disposable vapes are set to be banned as part of plans to tackle the rising number of young people taking up vaping - measures will also be introduced to prevent vapes being marketed at children and to target under-age sales. However, there are concerns that banning the sale of vapes will encourage children to seek them elsewhere. Emma Barnett is joined by the BBC’s Hayley Hassall and the Children’s Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza.

Apparently, if you’re a middle-aged couple and your sex life has faded away you may be experiencing the “couplepause”. The therapist and writer Lucy Cavendish joins Emma to explain what this is and how to get the spark back.

Actor Phoebe Dynevor, best known as Daphne Bridgerton in the Netflix blockbuster series, joins Emma in the studio. Her most recent role, as an ambitious hedge fund manager in the film Fair Play, has earned her a nomination for the EE Rising Star award at this year’s Baftas.

New sonar images from deep in the Pacific Ocean might have located the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane. Has Earhart’s disappearance finally been solved, or has the obsession with this mystery distracted us from the pioneering woman herself? Pilot Katherine Moloney and historian Dr Darren Reid discuss Amelia Earhart, her legacy, and women in aviation today.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm John Ronson and I'm an invisible enemy.

0:05.0

That changed people psychologically.

0:08.0

Words can be dangerous if you don't know the context.

0:12.0

We were told to stay at home.

0:15.0

We lived with an invisible enemy,

0:17.0

with only the internet for company.

0:19.0

That changed people psychologically.

0:21.0

I'm John Ronson, and I'll be unerthing the roots of the

0:24.4

culture wars that engulfed us then and still do now.

0:29.2

The award-winning podcast, Things Fell Apart Returns.

0:33.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:40.0

Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4.

0:45.0

Good morning and welcome to the program.

0:48.0

Today we're going to help you have sex.

0:51.0

If you're up for it and have someone to do it with and perhaps find yourself

0:54.3

in what's being described as a couple pause help is on hand and it starts with

0:59.7

you and your chosen one spending a serious amount of time looking into each other's eyes.

1:05.0

Again and again and again.

1:08.0

More on this story shortly. I can promise you that.

1:10.0

Also on today's programme, the actor Phoebe Dinova she of

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