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Woman's Hour

Weight-loss jabs, The Salt Path director, Tennis at Queens, Part-time teaching

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It's been reported that 1.5 million people are taking GLP1 weight-loss jabs and a huge majority are buying online without a face-to-face appointment with a doctor.   Yesterday, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned that women using weight-loss jabs must use effective contraception - and it is not known whether taking the medicines could harm an unborn baby. To discuss whether people using the jabs are aware of these issues and getting the right advice, Anita Rani is joined by GP Dr Sarah Jarvis and BBC Health Reporter Philippa Roxby.

The Salt Path is a new film based on Raynor Winn’s international bestselling memoir, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years has a rare neurodegenerative condition, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left to lose, they walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. It’s the first film directed by the acclaimed and award-winning theatre director Marianne Elliott, whose celebrated productions include War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. She joins Anita in the studio. 

For the first time since 1973 women will walk out to compete at Queen's Club as the Queen's Tennis tournament gets underway. To mark this moment, the Lawn Tennis Association is launching a series of initiatives to support the health and wellbeing of British women's tennis players. Anita speaks to the LTA's Chief Medical Officer Dr Guy Evans and former British Number One and Tournament Director of Queen's, Laura Robson.

A look at teaching today. Is increased part-time working the solution to female teacher retention? A new report is out, which is a large scale analysis of what happens to teachers after maternity leave. They have studied data from 150,000 teachers across 7,000 schools in the UK over the past four years, and have looked at the impact of part-time working versus full time during the first four years after returning back after maternity leave. Anita is joined by Nicola West-Jones, Director of Insight and External relations at The Key Group and co-author of the report, and Jess Edwards, a primary school teacher and Chair of Policy, Research and Campaigns at the National Education Union executive. 

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones

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0:00.0

Why do some big successful brands go bust?

0:05.0

Toast is back for a new series, taking a look at the decisions that often left investors burnt.

0:11.0

I'm Sean Farrington, a BBC business journalist. I'll be hearing about the hype.

0:15.0

They're going to do the deal that makes them the most money at that point of time.

0:19.0

And I'm picking what went wrong, talking to

0:22.1

owners and employees to ask, what can we learn? It was being undercut by similar rivals. It just

0:28.9

couldn't survive. Toast. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts.

0:39.0

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

0:44.2

Good morning and welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour.

0:47.3

Women will be playing at the Queen's tennis tournament for the first time in over 50 years.

0:52.5

We'll be hearing how the Lawn Tennis Association will be marking the event.

0:57.3

Also today, we'll be finding out the latest on the safety of weight loss jabs and contraception

1:02.2

and understanding why some teachers quit the profession after having a baby.

1:08.1

Also, I've got a top film recommendation for you. The Salt Path is a very

1:13.4

beautiful and inspiring film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. I'm going to be speaking

1:19.3

to the director, Marian Elliott, shortly. You may have read the book. The film is based on

1:24.1

the best-selling memoir of Raina Wyn. After losing their family home, Ray

1:28.9

and her husband Moth bought a cheap tent and decided to walk 630 miles around the south-west coastal

1:36.9

path. They were both in their 50s and had £115 in the bank. Also, Moth had been diagnosed

1:44.1

with a rare degenerative brain disease.

1:47.3

They made a wild decision at a moment in their life when they had nothing to lose and it changed

1:52.0

the course of their lives ultimately for the better. Well, don't we all sometimes wonder what would

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