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Woman's Hour: Power List judges - Living a greener life, Women and epilepsy, Identity politics and feminism, Essex girls

06/10/2020

Power List judges - Living a greener life, Women and epilepsy, Identity politics and feminism, Essex girls

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Power List judges - Living a greener life, Women and epilepsy, Identity politics and feminism, Essex girls

Power List judges - How to live a greener life. Women and epilepsy.

Around 300,000 women have epilepsy in the UK. Epilepsy Research UK say that hormones can affect epilepsy, and drugs used to control it need to be very carefully balanced with medication that women take. Dr Susan Duncan is a consultant neurologist. Torie, 30 and Ruth, 60 both have it.

Three of our Power List judges Lucy Siegle, Flo Headlam and Prof Alice Larkin answer your questions on how to live a greener life. 

The opera singer Natalya Romaniw has just been named Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, she tells us about the challenges of performing live during the pandemic.

Last week the first hydrogen train in the UK took its maiden journey. There’s still a lot to do like making room for the batteries underneath the train, and increasing the speed. Helen Simpson and Chandra Morbey are two women behind the project.javascript:void(0)

Writer and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s new book, Ladies who Punch, is about fifty daring courageous indomitable women.  The women who inspire her are black, white and brown.” Women,” she says, “have issues in common, regardless of race.  Differences matter but commonalities matter more and we seem to have lost sight of that.” Joining her to discuss these issues is academic and writer, Ruby Hamad, author of forthcoming book, White Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism betrays women of colour.  

Essex Girls are  the butt of countless jokes and preconceptions. Jane hears from the author Sarah Perry who has written in praise of the Essex Girl aimed at “profane and opinionated women everywhere”, and the food writer and political campaigner Jack Monroe who is a proud Essex Girl.

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Producer: Dianne McGregor

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