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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Coleen Rooney, IVF add-ons, Online safety, Talking on the phone, Singer Mica Millar

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has launched a ratings system to let patients see which IVF add-ons are backed-up by evidence. Emma Barnett is joined by Professor Tim Child, chair of the HFEA's Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee, and Jessica Hepburn, who spent over £70,000 on unsuccessful fertility procedures.

In October 2019, Coleen Rooney was concerned by articles appearing in newspapers that could only have come from stories on her private Instagram account. She laid a trap for the account she suspected of the leak, and then told the world ‘It was…Rebekah Vardy’s account’. Rebekah Vardy, who continues to deny she was the source of those stories, sued Coleen for libel. In a radio exclusive, Coleen speaks to Emma about her side of the story, told in a new documentary: The Real Wagatha Story.

Jazz/soul singer Mica Millar is performing as part of the London Jazz Festival in November. She joins Anita Rani to talk about her new album, Heaven Knows, which she wrote while recovering from a spinal injury during lockdown.

Britain's long-awaited Online Safety Bill is days away from becoming law. Emma talks to legal expert Joshua Rozenburg about what will be in the act. She’s also joined by Baroness Kidron, who has been very involved in getting the act through the Houses of Parliament, and Rashik Parmar, CEO of BCS, the chartered institute of IT, about the future of online safety.

Are we becoming afraid of our phones? A recent survey suggest half of 12 to 26-year-olds don't answer the phone to their parents and a third of them feel awkward speaking on the phone generally. Emma speaks to Helen Thorn, a writer, podcaster and comedian and to 17-year-old Iona Cooke Mcintosh.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lottie Garton

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour

0:08.6

from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.5

Hello and welcome to another Weekend Woman's Hour,

0:13.2

highlights from the week just gone.

0:15.3

Coming up, it's Wagatha Christie herself.

0:18.1

Rebecca reached out and messaged and said,

0:21.4

have you blocked me?

0:22.9

So I followed her back, said it must have been a mistake,

0:27.6

then accepts the back onto my account.

0:30.6

From there, I then done more and more fake posts,

0:35.6

which some of them then did go on to be in the newspaper.

0:40.3

Colleen Rooney will tell us what it was like for her

0:42.6

to go to court against Rebecca Vardy.

0:45.4

Plus, the new online safety bill is about to become law,

0:48.4

here how it's going to protect women and children,

0:51.4

and how do you feel about phone calls?

0:54.2

I do think like the phrase,

0:55.6

oh, can we talk this way more low than I feel?

0:57.8

I do feel very anxious when someone's like,

0:59.3

can we talk or can we call specifically?

1:02.3

I feel like I'm about to have a big moment,

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