Weekend Woman's Hour - Healthcare workers on the frontline, Debbie McGee and Naomi Paxton, virginity testing

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Emma, a pediatric nurse, who has been redeployed to an Intensive Care Unit talks about what it’s like to care for Covid patients and the daily stress and pressure currently experienced by health care professionals.

Amy Pope, former deputy home security advisor to President Obama talks about Congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of ten Republicans who crossed the floor and voted with the Democrats to impeach President Trump for the second time.

Author Debra Waters and science journalist and author Helen Thomson talk adult crushes. Should we see crushes as normal, exciting and harmless ways of understanding ourselves and our needs? Or is it morally questionable if you’re in a loving, committed relationship?

We hear from Anjali Raman-Middleton who went to primary school with Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah who was nine years old when she died in 2013. She had a rare and severe form of asthma. Angali co-founded 'Choked Up' with three other teenagers to lobby against the pollution that contributed to Ella's death.

Richard Holden, MP for North West Durham, Natasha Rattu, Director of Karma Nirvana and Dr. Naomi Crouch Chair of the British Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology Society and spokesperson for The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists talk about the Virginity Testing (Prohibition) Bill that was introduced in the House of Commons by Richard in December .

Debbie McGee and Naomi Paxton talk about being sawn in half and what it’s like to be a magician’s assistant.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.2	Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour.
0:39.6	I've got quite a selection of choice cuts from the week. American politics, Amy Pope,
0:45.2	former deputy home security advisor to President Obama, talks about Congresswoman Liz Cheney,
0:50.9	one of 10 Republicans who crossed the floor to impeach President Trump for the second time.
0:55.8	Much closer to home, we hear from Emma, a pediatric nurse who's been redeployed to an intensive care unit
1:01.8	and talks about the huge pressure of working on a COVID ward.
1:05.0	And we have some magic. Not a lot, just a bit.
1:08.0	Dancer and Magician's assistant Debbie McGee talks about being sawn in half.
1:12.0	That's where the sore goes right through you and then the boxes are pulled apart
1:16.8	and you can actually see the assistance body in the middle.
1:19.8	And so soaring in half is when they saw right through it and then they can split both halves.
1:26.3	So that's the difference. But it's noisy. It's like being at the dentist.
1:33.0	Will she reveal the secret of how it's done though?
1:36.0	We're also going to increase your heart rates
1:38.0	and hear about adult crushes,
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