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Woman's Hour

Young women and poverty, Below the Belt, British Gymnastics, Rosie Kinchen, Grenfell Tower anniversary

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

New research from the Young Women’s Trust paints a bleak picture for many young women as they come out of the pandemic and into the cost of living crisis, with young mums experiencing particular disadvantages. We hear from young mums Charlotte and Jyndi, and speak to Claire Reindorp CEO of the Young Woman’s Trust. Rosie Kinchen found herself deeply depressed after the birth of her second child. After rescuing an ailing houseplant she started dragging herself out of the house to look at plants in supermarkets and garden centres. The Ballast Seed is her memoir. Nearly two years ago in July 2020 a significant number of gymnasts, and parents of gymnasts, made allegations about mistreatment within the sport of gymnastics to British Gymnastics. Eloise Jotischky, a former elite acrobatic gymnast and now 19, has become the first to win a civil case against them for the abuse she experienced in the sport. British Gymnastics has admitted full liability and reached a settlement. BBC Sports correspondent, Natalie Pirks joins me now. A new film, Below the Belt, directed by Shannon Cohn features four women with endometriosis. Shannon who previously directed Endo What joins Emma. One of the UK's worst modern disasters, it will soon be the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. Seventy-two people died. The artist Tuesday Greenidge is sewing a quilt the size of Grenfell Tower to "symbolise justice" for survivors and the people affected. The singer Sophie DeMasi was involved in a song called West Side Story which came out this year in honour of the anniversary. They join Emma to discuss how art can help in the aftermath of such tragedy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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

0:10.5

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.5

I hope you managed a decent enough weekend and perhaps a little sunshine.

0:16.4

Well, talking of such things, sunshine matters a great deal to one of my guests today,

0:21.3

who managed to heal herself through plants and learning to garden.

0:25.8

The journalist Rosie Kinshens first book is a memoir about motherhood, depression and

0:30.5

plants.

0:31.5

I'm also going to be talking to two women on the programme who have created a song and

0:35.3

quilt respectively to mark the Grenfell Tower disaster and honour those who lost their lives

0:40.8

and the survivors just ahead of the five-year anniversary tomorrow.

0:46.0

Which gives me the opportunity to ask you this.

0:48.8

What if you created or perhaps learned or taught yourself out of pain?

0:54.1

Perhaps it was something that you were thinking of doing already, maybe it was something

0:57.6

you had never considered.

1:00.0

What had happened to you to make you perhaps create something in the first place?

1:04.5

How did it help you heal?

1:06.9

Text me here at Woman's Hour on 84844 text will be charged to your standard message rate

1:11.8

or on social media.

1:13.5

It's at BBC Woman's Hour or email me through the Woman's Hour website.

1:18.2

Also on today's programme, a powerful new film about endometriosis comes to the UK,

1:23.0

aptly called, below the belt.

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