Weekend Woman's Hour: Maternal mental health; Actors Laura Dern and Diane Ladd & Comedy drama Black Ops

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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An estimated one in five new and expectant mums develop perinatal mental illnesses such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. While every pregnant woman should be screened for mental health issues at their 10-week antenatal appointment, new data from NHS England shows one in six NHS Trusts are struggling to report if they are following the clinical guidelines. We hear from the Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist Dr Trudi Seneviratne and Hayley Johnson a mum of two who experienced debilitating anxiety after the birth of her second child.

When Sheilagh Matheson and her husband offered to house a mother and her daughters fleeing from Ukraine little did she know that the girls were musical prodigies and that their music would stop passers-by in the street. Sheilagh and 17-year-old Khrystyna tell us their story.

The book ‘Honey, Baby, Mine’ is a new joint project of mother/daughter actors Diane Ladd, and Laura Dern Working. It's based on a series of walks and talks taken when about four years ago Diane faced a serious threat to her health.

Why does rejection hurt so much? The writer Kate Wills tells us about how her fear of rejection has held her back in life, and an experiment she did to try and cure it. Plus we hear from the Chartered psychologist Fiona Murden.

The new BBC comedy drama Black Ops centres around Dom and Kay, two Police Community Support Officers in East London who join the Metropolitan police in the hope of cleaning up their neighbourhood. Instead they find themselves working undercover to infiltrate a criminal gang. We hear from its star, Gbemisola Ikumelo,

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Beverley Purcell

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me, Anita Rani, the program where we gather
0:10.3	together the best bits of Woman's Hour from the week just gone, package them all together
0:14.4	just for you. You're welcome. Coming up, the actor Diane Ladd talking about her new book
0:19.8	where she shares personal and honest stories about her life with her daughter Laura Dern.
0:24.6	Parents don't always tell their children the truth. Be honest here, we lie.
0:29.6	So then when the parent dies, you've heard so many people say, oh, I wish I'd ask my mother
0:35.7	there. So what this book is about, stop just Wushin and make it so.
0:41.2	Also, why there are gender differences when it comes to dealing with rejection?
0:45.1	Plus, the story of what happens when two of your Ukrainian guests turn out to be musical
0:50.4	prodigies. Sasha would be upstairs playing Sabelius in the top of the house in the attic.
0:56.0	And Christina would be downstairs playing Brahms. And then I have been trying and failing to play
1:02.7	the backpipes for the last two years. And that's absolutely excruciating. The whole thing is
1:08.4	utterly bizarre. And we'll have Bimmer Solo, Ickumelo, the star of the new BBC One comedy drama Black
1:15.2	Ops a little later on. So grab a comfy spot and settle in. But first, an estimated one in five new
1:22.8	and expectant mums develop perinatal mental illnesses such as depression, post-traumatic stress
1:28.0	disorder and psychosis, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Whilst every pregnant woman
1:34.2	should be screened for mental health issues at their 10-week anti-natal appointment,
1:38.4	new data from NHS England shows one in six NHS trusts are struggling to report if they're doing so
1:45.2	and therefore following the clinical guidelines. This is despite mental illness being the leading
1:51.0	cause of maternal death in the first year after birth. While I spoke to Hailey Johnson, a mum of two
1:56.8	who experienced debilitating anxiety after giving birth to her second child in late 2021,
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