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Woman's Hour: Annie Lord, Menovests, Roe v Wade, The Fellowship

30/06/2022

Annie Lord, Menovests, Roe v Wade, The Fellowship

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Annie Lord, Menovests, Roe v Wade, The Fellowship

Vogue's dating columnist Annie Lord on her debut, Notes on Heartbreak.

Vogue's dating columnist Annie Lord on her debut, Notes on Heartbreak, and Sir Iain Duncan Smith tells us about his experience wearing a hot flush vest.

How do you heal and get through a break up? Annie Lord is Vogue’s dating columnist. She joins Emma Barnett to talk about her debut book, Notes on Heartbreak. A candid exploration of the best and worst of love,  she talks about nursing a broken heart and her own attempts to move on in the current dating climate; from disastrous rebound sex to sending ill-advised nudes, stalking your ex’s new girlfriend and the sharp indignity of being ghosted.

The overturning by the US Supreme Court of the landmark Roe v Wade ruling has prompted many of you to get in touch to share your reactions and experiences.  One listener, Nicola, wanted to tell us about her mum - who died after having a legal termination that should have been safe, in 1968.  Closer to home there's been a high-level summit about buffer zones at abortion clinics. Emma speaks to Scotland's Green MSP, Gillian Mackay, who has drawn up a members bill which aims to introduce protest-free buffer zones around clinics.  And what does the law in the UK say about a woman’s right to an abortion? We hear from Professor Fiona De Londras, the Chair of Global Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School. 

The senior backbench Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith and some of his fellow MPs were given the opportunity this week to find out first hand exactly how uncomfortable a menopausal hot flush can be, especially when you’re in the workplace.  As part of an event raising awareness around the country’s shortage of HRT, Sir Iain and some his colleagues from both sides of the House of Commons,  tried out a so-called MenoVest, a special piece of clothing fitted with heat pads, to simulate the extreme discomfort which many menopausal women have to live with.  Emma speaks to Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Lesley Salem, who had the idea to create the vest. 

The Fellowship is a play which looks at the children of the Windrush generation and the relationship between Marcia and Dawn, two black sisters struggling to take care of their dying mother whilst juggling their turbulent personal lives. Emma speaks to Director Paulette Randall and actor Suzette Llewellyn, who plays Marcia.

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