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
Disabled women in lockdown, Rape in Nigeria, and Troupers
As we move to ease lockdown restrictions in this country, and look ahead to the “new normal”, there are a large number of people who are still very much in lockdown. Many people with medical condition...
4 Jun 202047min
Drummer Meg Learmonth, Direct selling and women, Anorexia in lockdown, The Other One
While the world has gone into lockdown and economies have crashed, one type of business has been seeing double-digit growth – direct selling. Independent consultants for big names such as Body Shop at...
3 Jun 202048min
