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Rabeka Nurmahomed

Jane Thurlow

Harriet Harman

Alison Penny

Georgia Elms

Stephanie Davies-Arai

Freddy McConnell

Carol Bates

Pauline Maddocks

Sandra Rees

Heidi Tworek

Clemmie Hooper

Molly Andrews

Woman's Hour: Harriet Harman, Clemmie Hooper, Bereavement Support

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04/02/2017

Harriet Harman, Clemmie Hooper, Bereavement Support

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Harriet Harman, Clemmie Hooper, Bereavement Support

Harriet Harman on the battles she's fought over three decades at Westminster.

Harriet Harman, the new Bereavement Support Payment, midwife Clemmie Hooper, women and the UN, and talking to yourself - worrying or beneficial?

The Labour MP Harriet Harman talks about her political and personal battles for equality fought over three decades at Westminster.

What impact will the new Bereavement Support Payment have? Alison Penny from the Childhood Bereavement Network and Georgia Elms who is the chair of WAY Widowed and Young discuss.

Are expectant mothers really going to be called 'pregnant people' in the future? Advice in an internal BMA booklet discusses language from a transgender point of view. Why is the language used so important? We hear from Stephanie Davies-Arai from the website Transgender Trend and from Freddy McConnell who was born female and has transitioned to man but retains his reproductive organs and may like to carry his own baby in the future.

Jude and Eva, who take part in The Secret Life of Five Year Olds on Channel 4 tell us some of their ideas about the differences between girls and boys.

Carol Bates, Pauline Maddocks and Sandra Rees on why they joined Crawley Old Girls football team, the first of its kind for older women.

Nikki Haley is the new US ambassador to the UN. Dr Heidi Tworek Assistant Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia tells us more about her.

Midwife, and mother of four daughters, Clemmie Hooper offers some practical advice about pregnancy and birth.

Why do so many of us talk to ourselves? Is this worrying or could it be beneficial? Molly Andrews, the Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research, and the author of Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life, explains.

Presented by Jenni Murray
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Jane Thurlow.

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