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Woman's Hour: Hygiene Poverty, Hanna Flint, Lumberjills

26/10/2022

Hygiene Poverty, Hanna Flint, Lumberjills

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Hygiene Poverty, Hanna Flint, Lumberjills

As the cost of living crisis continues we discuss hygiene poverty.

The new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appointed his team of top ministers but out of 31 members there are only seven women in his team. The BBC’s Leila Nathoo joins Jessica alongside Dr Meryl Kenny.  

Film critic and journalist Hanna Flint has been covering film and culture for nearly a decade.  She's now written a book, Strong Female Character: What Movies Teach Us in which she reflects on how cinema has been the key to understanding herself and the world we live in. She joins Jessica Creighton in the studio.

The latest inflation figures show the cost of household items like shower gel, toothpaste and shampoo rose by up to 11% from the same time last year. It's led to 3.2 million people saying they are no longer able to afford hygiene products. Ruth Brock is Chief Executive of the charity The Hygiene Bank and joins Jessica alongside Bryony, a mum from the South of England, who explains how it's impacting her.

Flo & Joan are the multi-award winning British musical comedy duo Nicola and Rosie Dempsey. They cover everything from women’s safety to dating apps to mental health through their witty and irreverent comedy songs. Their sell-out 140-date international tour, Sweet Release, has just been extended. They will be performing for us live in the studio.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Women’s Timber Corps - or ‘The Lumberjills’ as they were affectionately called. During World War Two Britain was so desperate for wood it was forced to step-up home-grown timber production. But with a lack of men to saw, manage and count the trees, meant that women from all over the UK stepped into the roles.  Joanna Foat, author of Lumberjills: Stronger Together joins Jessica.

Presenter: Jessica Creighton 
Producer: Emma Pearce

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