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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour - Mental health and dating, Charlotte Worthington BMX gold & comedy writer Georgia Pritchett

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dating apps have seen a growing trend towards individuals disclosing that they have a mental health disorder in their online profiles. Jo Hemmings a behavioural psychologist and Beth McColl a lifestyle journalist, tell us how and when to tell someone you are dating that you live with a mental health condition?

We look at the issue of maternal discrimination with Dr Katie Lidster a scientist who has just won £23,000 damages against her employer – a government backed body. She won the case against UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) after an 18-month battle following the arrival of her second child. She tells us about her case alongside Claire Dawson an employment lawyer.

Charlotte Worthington won gold for Team GB in the freestyle BMX event at the Olympics – the first time BMX has ever been represented at the games. She tells us about becoming the first woman to ever successfully land a 360 backflip in a competition.

The journalist and co-chair of the Mayor of London’s Violence Against Women and Girls board Joan Smith tells us how new research appears to show that extremist attackers are often united, whatever their ideology, by a significant history of domestic violence. She wants reports of domestic violence to be taken more seriously so that acts of terrorism can be prevented.

We have music and chat with the singer-songwriter Joy Crookes

And Georgia Pritchett is a multi-award winning comedy and drama writer. She has written for numerous TV shows like The Thick of It, Veep, Succession, Smack the Pony and Have I got News for You. She tells us about collaborating with comedians such as Miranda Hart, Lenny Henry, Ronnie Corbett and Jo Brand, and about her memoir ‘My Mess is a Bit of a Life’.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Lisa Jenkinson

Transcript

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womons Hour from BBC Radio 4.

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Hello and welcome to Weekend Womons Hour. Fresh from the Tokyo Olympics, Charlotte Worthington will be talking about her gold-winning performance in Freestyle BMX.

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We'll discuss online dating when you suffer from a mental health issue.

0:54.0

How much should you mention it online?

0:57.0

Obviously if you have an aging disorder, don't go on a meal for your first date,

1:01.0

if you've got issues with alcohol, don't go out for a drink.

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I mean, there are various things that you can do to minimize issues that you have, but my general

1:09.7

view would be to not include it in that very small dating profile.

1:14.4

We'll have beautiful music and chats with the singer, songwriter Joy Crooks.

1:18.4

We'll find out the links between domestic abuse and the men who commit acts of terrorism, and the multi-award winning comedy and drama writer Georgia Pritchett tells us why comedy writing chose her.

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I knew I couldn't write prose because I don't like describing things and I don't know enough adjectives.

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And I knew I couldn't be a journalist because I don't care about facts.

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And so it was actually my mom that pointed out that I would sort of watch my

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