Rosamund Pike, Covid-19 and women's finances, Florence Given, Fertility clinics
The scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie is recognised throughout the world but how much do you really know about her and her ground breaking Nobel prize winning discoveries? The Oscar nominated star of G...
13 Jun 202053min
Candice Brathwaite, Protests, Misogyny
Candice Brathwaite set up the group called Make Motherhood Diverse in order to set right a wrong. When pregnant, she didn't recognise anything in books and online that she could relate to. So she set ...
12 Jun 202049min
Covid - Impact on Women's Finances; Bettany Hughes; Berta Cáceres.
A picture is slowly emerging of what has happened to women’s personal finances since the Covid 19 pandemic began. The debt advice charity, Step Change, warned that British households are expected to r...
11 Jun 202044min
Homelessness, Touch, Caring
Fear of becoming homeless is one of the factors that stops women leaving an abusive relationship. That’s according to the charity Women’s Aid which carried out research before covid, and collected evi...
10 Jun 202044min
Rosamund Pike; Violence against grandparents; No-fault divorce; Florence Given
We look at the first UK study into the physical, emotional and financial abuse of some grandparents who are looking after their grandchildren as part of kinship care arrangements. Jane talks to the a...
9 Jun 202049min
Fertility Clinics during Covid-19, Mothers in Prison, Monica Dolan
Harriet Harman MP, raises concerns about the current treatment of mothers in prison during Covid-19 and the impact on their children and family life.. Fertility clinics were told last month that they ...
8 Jun 202046min
Children and racism, BAME NHS staff, Ocean Autopsy
The US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody. George Floyd, 46, died after being arrested outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But ...
6 Jun 202055min
Race issues in the nursing profession. Oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski. Desert Island Discs Day.
Carol Cooper was awarded Nursing’s Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year award in 2019, she is a Regional NHS Head of equality, diversity and human rights and is the a Royal College of Nursing ...
5 Jun 202045min
