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Woman's Hour: Covid-19 and eating disorders. Nicole Taylor, writer of the drama The Nest. Plus celebrating Passover under lockdown.

09/04/2020

Covid-19 and eating disorders. Nicole Taylor, writer of the drama The Nest. Plus celebrating Passover under lockdown.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Covid-19 and eating disorders. Nicole Taylor, writer of the drama The Nest. Plus celebrating Passover under lockdown.

The impact of Covid-19 on people with eating disorders.  Plus surrogacy drama - The Nest.

Covid-19 and eating disorders. Nicole Taylor on her new drama, The Nest. The pioneering women behind a military hospital set up in London during the First World War.

The UK’s leading charity supporting those affected by eating disorders BEAT estimates that around 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder. They’ve seen a 30% increase for demands in services in light of the Coronavirus.  With so much emphasis on food shortages and stockpiling, how are those  with eating disorders going to be affected ? Listener Amy Nguyen is an Anorexia survivor, Megan Jayne Crabbe a  mental health and lifestyle blogger and  Jess Griffiths is one of BEAT’s Clinical Associate Trainers.

Covid-19 has also seen a high level of anxiety among pregnant women. Jo Mountfield  Vice President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a consultant obstetrician at University Hospital Southampton explains what maternity services might look like and why mums to be should still seek help if they’re concerned.  

When the first world war broke out the suffragettes suspended their campaign for Votes for Women to join the war effort. Pioneering couple Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray moved to France and set up two small military hospitals with a staff of volunteers.  It was so successful the War Ministry asked them to return to London and establish one there. Wendy Moore’s book Endell Street is about the lives of the pioneering couple and the  remarkable women who worked with them. 

Writer Nicole Taylor talks about her new BBC Drama ‘The Nest’.  And in today's Woman's Hour Corona Diary we hear from Rachel Snow-Miller about what it's like celebrating Passover under lockdown .

Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest;  Wendy Moore 
Guest;  Nicole  Taylor
Guest;  Amy Nguyen
Guest;  Megan Jayne Crabbe 
Guest;  Jess Griffiths
Guest;  Rachel Snow-Miller

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