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Woman's Hour

Wet Leg's Rhian, HRT shortage, Women and boxing

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The indie band Wet Leg went straight to number 1 last week with their debut album. Their songs are witty: all about love, sex, parties and breakups. We speak to one of the band members, Rhian Teasdale. When it comes to losing weight why is the word “diet” used less and less these days? The diet industry is worth billions, but lots of people think the word itself is unhelpful. We talk to Dr Saira Hameed, an NHS Consultant who specialises in obesity medicine at Imperial College London. She's also the author of The Full Diet. And we also have Rhiannon Lambert, who's a Nutritionist. Can boxing transform lives? The actor Idris Elba thinks it might and he's got a series called Fight School which is currently on BBC 2. He’s recruited a group of eight young men and women, giving them an intensive boxing course with the aim of improving confidence and resilience. There's another goal which is to compete in an amateur fight. Chanika is one of the young women taking part, and Rachel Bower is one of the boxing coaches on the show. Rachel is also a former National Boxing champion and a Metropolitan police sergeant. They come into the Woman's Hour studio to speak to Anita. When it comes to getting HRT, MPs have been accused, once more, of betraying millions of menopausal women by failing to improve access to it as they promised. In October ministers announced a 'menopause revolution' but the plan to cut the cost of HRT doesn't come about until next April and now tens of thousands of women are suffering because of a nationwide shortage. But what's the impact of not having your gel or patch? Anita is joined by Dr Nighat Arif, a GP, plus author and documentary maker Kate Muir.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.4

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

0:10.8

Good morning everyone, it is nice to be back in the Woman's Hour chair but what I'd like

0:15.0

to know is, where are you seated this morning?

0:17.2

Hey you, over there, I'm a shades long in your underwear.

0:23.6

What are you doing sitting down?

0:26.8

You should be on the resort till now.

0:29.5

It's good isn't it?

0:32.4

You might already know it, it's shades long.

0:34.3

The first release by High Love White, duo Wet Leg, their debut album is at number one

0:39.3

in the UK.

0:40.4

The girls have done good and Rian will be on the show to talk to me a little bit later

0:45.0

on.

0:46.0

Then also this morning, generations didn't talk about it.

0:49.7

It was seen as a taboo subject that women just had to disappear and deal with.

0:54.2

Your mothers and grandmothers may well have had a very different experience to you, whether

0:58.4

you've gone through it, or dealing with it right now, or will go through it in the future.

1:02.7

I'm talking about the menopause.

1:05.3

But today on the show, we absolutely want to talk about it.

1:09.2

We want to hear about your experiences of it, whether you've gone through it yourself

1:13.5

or memories of the people around you going through it.

1:16.4

We want to know about the real impact of menopause on your life.

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