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Woman's Hour: Suranne Jones, Housing, Eating disorders, Physicist Professor Dame Athene Donald

Suranne Jones, Housing, Eating disorders, Physicist Professor Dame Athene Donald

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Suranne Jones, Housing, Eating disorders, Physicist Professor Dame Athene Donald

Bafta-winning actor Suranne Jones talks about her latest role in a new three-part drama

Bafta-winning actor Suranne Jones talks about her latest role in Maryland, a new three-part drama about two sisters discovering that their mother was leading a secret life.

Bafta-winning actor Suranne Jones is back on our screens with Maryland, a three-part drama about two sisters discovering that their mother was leading a secret life.   Suranne, who plays the younger sister Becca, is also executive producer on the series.  She joins Hayley to explain how the idea, which came to her in a dream, made it onto the small screen.  
A new law to be tabled in Parliament today would abolish no-fault evictions and make it illegal for landlords to refuse tenancies to those in receipt of benefits, as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England.  Housing campaigners said the bill was a "huge opportunity" to improve the lives of the 11 million renters in England - but its still doesnt go far enough to help many renters, 40% of which are women.  Melissa York, the assistant property editor at The Times and The Sunday Times & Polly Neate, Chief Exectuive of Shelter.
Psychiatrists say they’re worried that some people with eating disorders are being offered palliative care, warning it is not a terminal illness and most people can recover.  Carolyn Atkinson reports and Hayley talks to mental health campaigner Hope Virgo.
Hayley talks to scientist and academic Athene Donald about her new book Not Just for the Boys which examines the historic societal exclusion of women from science and the systemic disadvantages women in science operate under. She looks at the common myths that science isn't creative and that it is carried out by a lone genius in an ivory tower, offering her perspective on what progress has been made, and how more is needed. 

Presenter: Hayley Hassall
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood

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