Woman's Hour29 Tammi 2024

Fasting and women, Conscription, Cuteness exhibition

Following the speech last week by the head of the British Armed Forces calling for a new ‘citizen army’, we look at what this could look like and what role women would play. Emma Barnett speaks to former RAF Group Captain Kathleen Sherit the author of Women on the Front Line, and to Diane Allen, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel.

It's been reported that the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fasts for 36 hours at the start of each week. He is said to stop eating by 5pm on a Sunday and doesn't permit himself to touch food again until 5am on a Tuesday, and allows himself to drink only black coffee and water. It is said that he has followed this practice for years. Emma is joined by Dr Saira Hameed to discuss fasting and how men and women should approach it differently.

Amy and Anu are identical twins, but just after they were born, they were taken from their mother and sold to separate families. Years later they connected online and realised they were among thousands of babies in Georgia stolen from hospitals and sold, some as recently as 2005. Emma speaks to one of the twins, Amy Khvitia, and also Fay Nurse, a BBC journalist behind a new documentary, Georgia’s Stolen Children.

From cute cat memes to plush toys, a new exhibition at Somerset House explores the power of cuteness in contemporary culture. But is buying into a cute aesthetic regressive or even sexist, or can cute be reclaimed as a form of protest? And how would you feel, as a grown woman, about being labelled 'cute' or 'adorable'? To discuss, Emma is joined by Dr Isabel Galleymore, a consultant on the Cute exhibition; and the journalist Vicky Spratt.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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Parent Strike, Bella Mackie, Nigeria schoolgirl kidnappings

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27 Elo 57min

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26 Elo 56min

HPV home-testing kits, Women-run hospitality map, Digital wardrobe apps

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25 Elo 57min

Author Louise Doughty, Scottish women offenders, Boxer Chantelle Cameron

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24 Elo 57min

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21 Elo 57min

Amelia Dimoldenberg, Vaping, Bigamy, Angel Blue

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20 Elo 54min

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19 Elo 57min