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Woman's Hour

Bat For Lashes; Losing a baby in pregnancy or birth

Duration: 54 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, on the making of her new album, The Bride, which uses a character and storytelling to reflect on ideals about marriage.

Losing a twin at birth and supporting families who lose a baby. Millie Smith talks tells us how her campaign to put purple butterflies on cots to show a baby has been lost in a multiple pregnancy led her to set up The Skye Foundation. And we speak to Cheryl Titherly, Manager of Improving Bereavement Care at Sands UK - a charity which supports parents and families.

Plus The Millicent Fawcett Memorial Lecture - we hear from leading historian and writer Dr Amanda Foreman who is delivering this year's lecture on the silencing of women through history and the repercussions today.

And Dr Louisa Messenger joins us to talk about her research into Chagas disease - which led to her being awarded one of five 2016 L'Oréal UNESCO Women in Science Fellowships.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Emma Wallace. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Producer:
Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:
Natasha Khan
Interviewed Guest:
Millie Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Cheryl Titherly
Interviewed Guest:
Amanda Foreman
Interviewed Guest:
Louisa Messenger

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