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Woman's Hour: Harriet Walker, Elika Ashoori, Dr Henrietta Hughes, Sarah Graham, Neil Leitch, Adam Hawksbee

Harriet Walker, Elika Ashoori, Dr Henrietta Hughes, Sarah Graham

Harriet Walker, Elika Ashoori, Dr Henrietta Hughes, Sarah Graham, Neil Leitch, Adam Hawksbee

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Harriet Walker, Elika Ashoori, Dr Henrietta Hughes, Sarah Graham, Neil Leitch, Adam Hawksbee

Abandoning the bra – the new trend of going braless.

Harriet Walker on the new trend of women not wearing bras.

There’s a growing trend in women not wearing bras. To talk about this Nuala McGovern is joined by the Fashion Editor of The Times, Harriet Walker. She’ll talk about bra trends up to now, and why this might not be the best of them.

According to reports in the Telegraph, Rishi Sunak has shelved plans to reform childcare services put forward by his predecessor, Liz Truss. The plans were looking at increasing free childcare support and changing the staff-child ratio. Nuala McGovern will be looking at what the postponing of these reforms means for parents who need childcare, as well as those working in the industry, speaking to the CEO of the Early Years Alliance Neil Leitch and the Deputy Director of UK Onward, Adam Hawksbee.

In our series Finding My Voice we’re talking to women about the moment they realised they had something to say or stand up for. Elika Ashoori was an actor and baker who rarely kept up with politics. That is, until 2017 when her father, Anoosheh, was detained by the Iranian authorities while visiting his mother. Over the next 5 years, she and her family fought for his release and she was forced to go through what she calls a ‘crash course’ in human rights campaigning. 

We look at the "gender health gap" with the Patient Safety Commissioner for England - Dr Henrietta Hughes. . A GP by training and previously a medical director at NHS England she was appointed in July and took up the post in September. She'll be joined by the health journalist Sarah Graham  who has a new book out, Rebel Bodies: A guide to the gender health gap revolution


Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Bob Nettles.

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