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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Painkiller addiction, Lily James, Slay in Your Lane

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Weekend Woman's Hour: Painkiller addiction, Lily James, Slay in Your Lane

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Painkiller addiction, Lily James, Slay in Your Lane

Addiction to painkillers, Lily James on Mamma Mia!, Slay in Your Lane.

The Fix: how women are becoming addicted to prescription medication, Lily James on her new role in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!, and Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible.

The Fix: Helen tells us how she became addicted to prescription medication, when she got prescribed strong painkillers for backache.

Lily James talks about her role in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!

We have advice about a new sexually transmitted disease known as MGen. Dr Suneeta Soni explains how the infection can cause pelvic inflammatory disease which leaves some women infertile.

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene tell us about their book Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible

The writer director Deborah Haywood talks about her experience of making her first feature film about a mother and daughter who both have to deal with bullying.

The New York based jazz, pop and folk singer, guitarist and composer Becca Stevens performs for us.

Novuyo Tshuma on her debut novel House of Stone about growing up in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe and discovering the painful truth about the Gukurahundi genocide.

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