Weekend Woman's Hour: The Three Hijabis, 150 years of Female GPs & going braless
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Three female football fans – hashtag ‘TheThreeHijabis - as they called themselves set up a petition calling for racists to be banned for life from all football matches in England. Shaista Aziz, Amna Abdullatif and Huda Jawad tell us about the petition which now has over a million signatories.
As the Royal College of GPs marks 150 years of women in general practice we ask why more than half of GPs in the UK are women. We also discuss why women GP’s may still face issues like lower pay compared to men in their field. We hear from the President of the Royal College of GPs, Dr Amanda Howe and GP trainee, Dr Sophie Lumley.
After more than a year of working from home during the pandemic, a third of women say they want to ditch their bra forever. Joanna Wakefield-Scurr, is Professor in Biomechanics at the University of Portsmouth she talks about the pros and cons of not wearing a bra.
A Government challenge to a Parole Board decision to release Colin Pitchfork has been rejected - paving the way for the double child killer to be freed in the next few weeks. Pitchfork has served 33 years in prison after being jailed for raping and murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in the 1980s. We hear from Philip Musson the uncle of Dawn Ashworth and from Belinda Winder, a Professor of Forensic Psychology and Research Director of the Centre of Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement (COPE) at Nottingham Trent University, and from David Wilson Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Birmingham University.
Deborah James is a the host of the BBC's You, Me And The Big C podcast, a campaigner, writer and mother of two. She tells us about her recent experience of liver failure followed by sepsis and how she attended Wimbledon only 12 hours after leaving hospital.
And we have music and chat from Bronwen Lewis a Welsh singer songwriter whose style sits between Country, Pop, Folk and Blues.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Siobhann Tighe
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womons Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:39.8 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. |
| 0:42.9 | We celebrate 150 years of women in general practice. |
| 0:46.9 | I chat to the forces of nature behind the petition |
| 0:49.6 | to kick racism out of football. |
| 0:51.8 | We have a musical treat for you in the form of Welsh singer-songwriter |
| 0:55.4 | Bromwin Lewis and Braers, or rather no Bras, as a third of women admit lockdown has been an opportunity to ditch them. What do you need to consider |
| 1:04.9 | before you do the same? There's no disease linked to a sagging of the breast or a stretching of the |
| 1:11.2 | skin of the breast. |
| 1:12.8 | But it is a psychological consideration for some women. |
| 1:16.2 | They don't want their breasts to sag. |
| 1:18.5 | So wearing appropriate support can help reduce the risk of stretching the skin. |
| 1:23.0 | We'll also hear from Bowel-Babe Deborah James |
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