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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour - Carla Bruni, Working from Home, HIV and Bame women

17/10/2020

Weekend Woman's Hour - Carla Bruni, Working from Home, HIV and Bame women

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour - Carla Bruni, Working from Home, HIV and Bame women

Carla Bruni, Working From Home, and HIV and Bame women.

Carla Bruni on her new album; how to work from home successfully; and Bame women living with HIV.

We have music from the former supermodel Carla Bruni who tells us about her new album.

We hear from the Conservative MP Laura Trott who is trying to get a law passed to stop under 18s accessing filler treatments and other cosmetic procedures. We also hear from Ashton Collins from the organisation Save Face who have had reports of injuries caused by botched cosmetic procedures. 

A journalist who writes about paramilitaries, has made a formal complaint to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland because investigations into threats made to her and her baby have come to nothing. She tells us why she believes her gender means she receives more threats than her male colleagues.

We discuss why three-quarters of women living with HIV in the UK are of Black, Asian or minority ethnic background. We hear from Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan, a consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine and two women living with HIV: Mina Kakaiya who's a mental health and mindfulness trainer of South Asian heritage, and Bakita Kasadha who's a British-Ugandan poet, activist and researcher. They discuss the stigma around the illness.

Onjali Rauf tells us about her new children’s book, The Night Bus Hero, which is told from the point of view of a bully. 

And with so many of us working from home, and who knows when it will end, how's it going for you? We hear from clinical psychologist Linda Blair, and Chloe Davies, Head of PR & Partnerships at MyGWork.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Siobhann Tighe

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