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Woman's Hour: Clean Break, PTSD Partners, Sizeism

23/10/2019

Clean Break, PTSD Partners, Sizeism

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Clean Break, PTSD Partners, Sizeism

Clean Break's 40th, PTSD Part 2, Being Fat.

Clean Break's 40th Birthday. Partners of soldiers with PTSD. Fat and feeling discriminated against.

Clean Break is a theatre company that works with women in prison or have been in prison. Clean Break is now 40 years old. and as part of their birthday celebrations one of their plays is on in the West End of London. It's called [BLANK] and is at the Donmar Warehouse.  It looks at the experiences of women behind bars and the impact on their families and across society. Jacqueline Holborough the co-founder of Clean Break comes on the programme together with the play’s director, Maria Aberg and one of the actors, Lucy Edkins.

We have the second in our series about the partners of soldiers with PTSD. Today we hear from Becky, who's 40 and a mum of two. She's known her husband since they were teenagers but she tells our reporter, Tamsin Smith, how PTSD infiltrated their relationship as soon as they moved into military married quarters.

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