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Woman's Hour: Holly Smale, Caroline Dinenage MP, Ursula Le Menn & Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Proff. Asma Khalil & Dr. Mary Ross-Davie

Holly Smale, Caroline Dinenage MP, Ursula Le Menn & Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Proff. Asma Khalil & Dr. Mary Ross-Davie

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Holly Smale, Caroline Dinenage MP, Ursula Le Menn & Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Proff. Asma Khalil & Dr. Mary Ross-Davie

Holly Smale, Caroline Dinenage MP, trial of Valerie Bacot & a new Covid/Pregnancy study

Geek Girl author Holly Smale, Digital Minister Caroline Dinenage, the case of Valerie Bacot who's about to be tried for killing her husband and a new report on Pregnancy & Covid.

On Woman's Hour today Emma Barnett talks to the best selling author Holly Smale about being diagnosed with autism at age 39. The author of the "Geek Girl" series  has said she feels relief that she now has an explanation for why she’s felt she’s never “ fitted in”.

We speak to the journalist Rosamund Urwin about her scoop on the Martin Bashir story and also to the Digital Minister Caroline Dinenage MP about what’s in the new Online Safety Bill.

In a few weeks, a French woman will stand trial for killing her husband, but she's got the support of thousands of people in France who've signed a petition and want her pardoned. Valerie Bacot was with her older husband for decades. Valerie's now 40, but she knew her husband since she was 12. From then on he molested her, beat her, raped her and used her as a prostitute.  We talk to Ursula Le Menn is from Osez le feminisme!  a French feminist campaigning organisation and she knows family and friends of Valerie and also to Anne-Elisabeth Moutet  a journalist based in Paris.

A new UK study suggests having Coronavirus around the time of birth may increase the chance of stillbirths and premature births. Scientists say while most pregnancies are not affected their findings should encourage pregnant women to have jabs as soon as they are eligible. We hear from Professor Asma Khalil who was the co-author of the research paper and also Dr Mary Ross Davie the Director of Professional Midwifery  at the Royal College of Midwives.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Engineers: Bob Nettles, Duncan Hannant.

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