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Woman's Hour: Maggie Murray, Melinda Simmons, Emma Beddington and Sandy Black, Tina Backhouse, Matthew Greenwood

Maggie Murray, Melinda Simmons, Emma Beddington and Sandy Black, Tina Backhouse

Maggie Murray, Melinda Simmons, Emma Beddington and Sandy Black, Tina Backhouse, Matthew Greenwood

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Maggie Murray, Melinda Simmons, Emma Beddington and Sandy Black, Tina Backhouse, Matthew Greenwood

Female photographers documenting resistance across generations feature in a new exhibition

Photographing Protest: Resistance through a feminist lens opens this week, with work by a range of female photographers including Maggie Murray,

A new exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance through a feminist lens,  features striking protest images by women and explores how images of resistance resonate across generations from 1968 to the present day.  Maggie Murray, a prolific photographer of protest, whose images feature throughout the exhibition. As a founding member of Format photo agency, she documented ground-breaking protests of the 1980s and 1990s and tells Emma about her work.  

Currently based in Warsaw, Melinda Simmons has been the British Ambassador for the Ukraine since September 2019. She left Kyiv on 19 February 2022 and only finally left Ukraine on 7th March 2022 eleven days after the Russian invasion. She joins Emma to discuss Putin, Ukrainian refugees and the support role she and her team are now playing for Ukrainian citizens from Poland.

We talk about the cost-of-living crisis and the ends some women are going to to make ends meet with Matthew Greenwood head of debt at the Centre for Social Justice.

Would you wear the same dress for 100 days? Could you do it? Emma Beddington made it to 40 days wearing the same dress as a challenge. We speak to her and Sandy Black, Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology, about the power, sustainability and history of wearing the same item over and over again.

Are you struggling to get hold of your HRT? Menopausal women are reporting being forced to turn to the so-called black market as demand for prescriptions in England has doubled in the last five years. We speak to Tina Backhouse the General Manager of Theramex, one of the largest suppliers of HRT to the UK market about what is causing the current problems.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Tim Heffer

Photo credit: Maggie Murray

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