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🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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A midwife from a maternity unit tells us why she and over thirty of her colleagues are refusing to have the Covid jab. We hear from the Royal College of Nursing who want the Government to pause the vaccine mandate for NHS staff immediately because of the threat to an already understaffed NHS. And we speak to Professor Ian Jones, a Virologist at the University of Reading about the science of infection and transmission.
Almost 300 years after the Witchcraft Acts were repealed, a bill has been bought forward in the Scottish parliament to pardon those convicted. This comes after a two-year campaign to clear the names of nearly 4,000 people accused of witchcraft. We are joined by Zoe Venditozzi, co-founder of the campaign, and Marion Gibson, Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Essex.
Helen Pankhurst, the great-granddaughter of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, talks about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which the House of Lords will debate on Monday. Reflecting on historical and global parallels, she talks about the role of protest in the fight for equality.
Skin issues in adolescence can shape lives. We speak to Dr Tess McPherson, the current president of the British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology, and Maia Grey, an acne positivity blogger who has lived with acne since her early teens.
We are joined by British actor Adjoa Andoh and the award-winning British composer Julie Cooper, who have collaborated on the title track of a new album called Continuum. Julie wrote the music and Adjoa responded with a poem called "Hold out the Heart", capturing the emotions of the pandemic.
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0:34.4 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. |
0:37.0 | This is the show where we've neatly put together some of the best and must-hear |
0:41.0 | interviews from across the week. |
0:42.8 | Coming up, we hear from Dr Helen Pankhurst, |
0:45.7 | the great granddaughter of suffragette leader |
0:48.0 | Emeline Pankhurst on the importance of protest. |
0:51.6 | Plus, how much do you know about witches? We revisit the history of |
0:56.2 | witchcraft and the women who were demonized as a result. But first, the story of a |
1:02.4 | maternity unit were nearly 40 midwives are refusing to be vaccinated and face losing their jobs under new COVID rules. |
1:10.0 | From April 1st, any frontline NHS staff who've not had two jabs will be redeployed or sacked. |
1:17.0 | This raises obvious worries for pregnant women who are concerned about staff shortages |
1:22.0 | and how a lack of qualified midwives could |
1:24.3 | affect their care during pregnancy and labour. |
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