That Time of the Month: Pelvic Girdle Pain

Nicky Campbell asks if it's time to have a proper conversation about our mental health after the Meghan and Harry interview and the reaction to it?If you are affected by any issues in this podcast, you can find support and advice on the BBC's Action Line website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline/

10 Maalis 202146min

5 Live's Naga Munchetty has been speaking to Col, Marie and Thelma (not their real names), who have 12 children in the care system. They've been helped by projects run by Pause charity which works with women who have had multiple children taken away. The women agree to take a long-acting contraceptive and get intensive help for their own problems.If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can find support and advice at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

23 Helmi 202125min

China calls them centres for re-education. The United States says the actions of the state amount to genocide. As more testimonies emerge from China’s “re-education” camps in the Xinjiang region of China, Colin Murray speaks to a former detainee who recounts appalling abuses, a reporter who posed as a tourist to gain access to the region, and a Uighur American who fears he’ll never see his mother again following her internment. Independent estimates suggest more than a million men and women have been detained in the network of camps, while human rights groups allege mass detention and forced sterilization - both allegations are denied by the Chinese government. Journalist Isobel Yeung describes her experience of China’s Orwellian surveillance and harassment first-hand during her time in Xinjiang, and how she captured hidden-camera footage of multiple Uighur men being detained by police in the middle of the night: “It's almost laughable the amount of reasons that a Uighur individual could end up in a very high security prison essentially. People told me that they'd been imprisoned for wearing a headscarf or from having WhatsApp on their phone, or from reading Arabic on their phone. The list goes on and on and on and it's incredible. Almost every Uighur individual is seen as a direct security threat, and that is exactly how they're treated.” Uighur-American engineer, Ferkat Jawdat left China in 2011 but his mother was denied a passport despite being granted an American visa. She's since been repeatedly detained in camps and following her release is still not allowed to leave her home. Ferkat has become an activist and leading voice on the treatment of the Uighur people but says he’s been warned to stop speaking out: “In 2019 I had a meeting with (the US) former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. So after three days I learnt that my mum was being transferred from the camp to a prison and then I received a message that I had to stop speaking out. If not, that I would lose my mum forever.” Tursunay Ziawudun spent two periods detained in a camp in Xinjiang. The second stint lasted nine months, and it’s during this time she says she was raped and tortured: “For a woman, who suffered from gang rapes it’s an unspeakable shame, but if I don’t speak up I have siblings and their children there, and our future generations are living there, and what is going to happen to our Uyghur women and their children? Bearing in mind of all those who are still suffering, I am prepared to make all sacrifices.” “How many women like me have suffered their abuse, I am not the only one, many of them are so young and innocent, I appeal to the world that it must not standby idly, I wish to believe and hope that the world will act.”

19 Helmi 202149min

Mark Jones’ seven-year-old daughter Emily was killed by a psychiatric patient on Mothers Day 2020.He claims an NHS trust’s failings left Eltiona Skana free to kill Emily in a park in Bolton.Speaking to 5 Live’s Naga Munchetty, Mark said he will “keep fighting” until he receives an apology from the NHS.Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust said it continued to send "deepest sympathies to everyone who loved and cared for Emily".

17 Helmi 202129min

NFL legend Osi Umenyiora speaks to Adrian Chiles about his childhood experiences of being a winner, how he found the sport of American Football and his experiences of a being black man living in the UK, Nigeria and America.

5 Helmi 202120min

Hollyoaks fan John from Cheshire has opened up to Ashley Taylor Dawson, the actor who plays Darren Osborne in Hollyoaks, on BBC Radio 5 Live about how a suicide storyline in the soap saved their life. Speaking on 5 Live Drive, 32-year-old John thanked Ashley and said: “If that storyline hadn’t happened I would not be here. I’d be dead. That’s the reality of it. You have saved my life.” John was struggling with suicidal thoughts in lockdown last year. After watching the friends and family’s reaction of character Kyle ending his life in the soap, it “hit home” and encouraged John to open up about their feelings and seek mental health support. If you, or someone you know needs help, you can find details about how to access support by searching for ‘BBC Action Line’ or go to www.bbc.co.uk/actionline

1 Helmi 202128min

James Comey, former Director of the FBI, reveals that President Trump told him an ‘off colour’ anecdote about Russian prostitutes in their first Oval Office conversation and his concern that the “drama” of a Federal Trial for President Trump could cause problems for incoming President Joe Biden.

15 Tammi 202126min

From tighter restrictions, to operations, to schools - England’s chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, answers callers’ questions on the current coronavirus situation. This was a simulcast on the morning of 11 January, presented by Nicky Campbell for 5 Live and Reeta Chakrabarti for the BBC News channel.

11 Tammi 202127min