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Woman's Hour: Women pig farmers and mental health. Modern slavery. The cave woman rebuilding her business after Covid.

18/10/2021

Women pig farmers and mental health. Modern slavery. The cave woman rebuilding her business after Covid.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Women pig farmers and mental health. Modern slavery. The cave woman rebuilding her business after Covid.

Women pig farmers and mental health. A High Court ruling that could help survivors of trafficking. Plus the woman who spent 105 hours in a cave to save her business.

According to a new survey on mental wellbeing in agriculture, 58% of women in farming experience anxiety compared to 44% of men. What's the reason behind it?  How much impact has Brexit and the pandemic had on the problem?  We discuss with Alicia Chivers, Chief Executive of the  Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, and East Yorkshire pig farmer Kate Moore.

Conservative MP Sir David Ames, who was killed on Friday had been in Parliament since 1983 . Issues raised  by the people he represented were top of  his agenda.  When a woman called Carla came and told him about how her life was blighted by endometriosis, he took up the cause. We hear from the former Labour MP for Dewsbury, who he worked with on this issue while she was in the House, despite them being politically poles apart. 

We've been following the work of the Salvation Army  who have the Home Office contract to support all victims of modern slavery in England and Wales and have been given exclusive access to their  annual report which shows that demand for their services is soaring.   Young Albanian women make up the largest group of survivors who escape from their traffickers after being sexually exploited.  Many of these women are waiting to hear if the Home Secretary will appeal against what's described as a  landmark High Court ruling last week.  It was brought by a Vietnamese woman who was trafficked to the UK and if upheld will affect hundreds of others like her.
We hear from Ahmed Aydeed from law firm Duncan Lewis the woman's solicitor. Plus  reporter Carolyn Atkinson talks to a survivor and to Kathy Betteridge, Major Director of Anti Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Salvation Army.

Plus Emma the Yorkshire woman who spent over a hundred hours in a cave. Lisa Bowerman owns Stump Cross Caverns, She runs the caves as a family business and they'll usually a big attraction for tourists.  She explains why she hopes the stunt will give the business a lift post-covid..  

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Producer Beverley Purcell

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