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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Actor Samantha Morton, Alabama IVF, Andi and Charlotte Osho

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The twice Oscar-nominated actor Samantha Morton has just received the Bafta Fellowship: a lifetime achievement award which recognises an outstanding contribution to film and television. She grew up in the social care system and began working in film and television at the age of 13. In a moving speech at the Baftas last week, Samantha dedicated the award to every child in care today.

Both Republicans and Democrats in the US state of Alabama are trying to find a legal solution that would protect access to IVF treatment, after a court ruling cast doubt on its future. Alabama's Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos have the same rights as children. Jenny Kleeman speaks to lawyer Eric Wrubel, who specialises in fertility law and Kristia Rumbley who has three frozen embryos at a fertility clinic in Alabama.

People in their early 20s are more likely to be out of work because of ill health than those in their early 40s, according to a new report. Lindsay Judge, Research Director at The Resolution Foundation, which carried out the research, explains how young women are particularly affected and are one-and-a-half times more likely to experience poor mental health than young men.

Last July, comedian, actor and author Andi Osho joined spoke to us about her second novel, Tough Crowd. During the interview Andi revealed she was also editing her mother’s memoirs – a legacy for her three children. Charlotte Osho has now published The Jagged Path, and she joins Emma along with her editor/daughter Andi.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds.

0:02.0

Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.

0:06.0

But you sit down and be bright.

0:08.0

Celebrating women's voices.

0:10.0

You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.

0:14.8

This is juicy. No limits, no limits.

0:17.2

Celebrating women.

0:18.8

Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out

0:24.4

where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.

0:28.8

Lesson on BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:41.0

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me Anita Rani.

0:45.3

As always, we've got a pack show for you today featuring the best of Woman's Hour guests

0:49.4

and interviews from the week just gone.

0:51.6

Coming up this afternoon, the actor Samantha Morton on

0:54.7

being awarded the Bafter Fellowship. We'll hear from a woman in Alabama on how the

0:59.3

Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as children is affecting

1:04.9

her and what she does with the frozen embryos she has left over from IVF.

1:10.0

While we don't believe their children, they are important to us. They're potential

1:14.8

children, they're potential siblings to our kids, their hope, and it's not

1:20.3

something that you can just dispose of or donate without being completely

1:27.1

certain that that's where your heart is.

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