Weekend Woman's Hour: Miscarriage, Maggie O'Farrell on stammering, Women and alcohol-related liver disease

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Losing a baby in the early stages of pregnancy can be an extremely painful experience. Having to explain to your employer why you can’t come to work only adds to the difficulty. In the UK, there’s currently no entitlement to time off for miscarriage within the first six months of pregnancy. The Women and Equalities Select Committee is hearing evidence on extending the right to bereavement leave to cover losses up to 24 weeks. Sarah Owen MP, Chair of the Committee and someone who has experienced baby loss, joined Nuala McGovern to discuss. When the Stammer Came to Stay is award-winning author Maggie O’Farrell’s third children’s book. Based on her experience of living with a stammer, it celebrates differences and explores children’s resilience in facing new challenges. She talks to Anita Rani about the book and how her stammer has shaped her life. Why are more young women dying from alcohol-related liver disease than ever before? BBC journalist Hazel Martin, diagnosed with the condition in her early 30s, has been investigating how her social drinking habits put her life at risk. Hazel joined Nuala along with Professor Debbie Shawcross, Consultant Hepatologist at King’s College Hospital, to explore the growing crisis and its causes. After writing her Spinal Column for The Times since 2010 —beginning just two weeks after breaking her neck and back in a riding accident—Melanie Reid has decided it’s time to stop. She joined Nuala to discuss why she’s stepping away, her reflections on the journey, and her plans for the future. Song-writing partnership Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear are making history by becoming the youngest and first female songwriting duo to compose for a Disney feature film in Moana 2. The Grammy Award-winning pair joined Nula to discuss their musical partnership. Kim Cypher, a saxophonist, composer, and vocalist, is a regular on the London and UK jazz circuit. She recently launched her third album, Catching Moments, and joined Anita in the Woman’s Hour studio and performed live.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.4	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.1	I wouldn't even know where to start.
0:26.7	And I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.5	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.5	Hello, I'm Anita Rani, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:42.6	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:49.4	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour me Anita Rani on the program today,
0:54.6	writer Maggie O'Farrell on her experiences of living with a stammer.
0:58.8	We look at the growing number of young women whose social drinking habits
1:02.1	are leading to alcohol-related liver disease.
1:04.9	We'll hear from Barlow and Bear, aka Emily and Abigail,
1:08.5	the youngest and first all-women songwriting duo to score a Disney
1:13.3	film with Moana too. And if that's not enough, we've got music from teacher turned jazz saxophonist
1:19.2	Kim Seifer. So don't go anywhere and turn it up. But first, losing a baby in the early stages of
1:26.5	pregnancy can be an extremely painful experience.
1:30.2	Having to think about what you're going to tell your employer about why you're not able to come to work can compound the difficulty.
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