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Woman's Hour: Mary Earps' SPOTY win, Women's Super League founder Kelly Simmons, Pregnancy sickness

Mary Earps' SPOTY win, Women's Super League founder Kelly Simmons, Pregnancy sickness

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Mary Earps' SPOTY win, Women's Super League founder Kelly Simmons, Pregnancy sickness

Why is England goalkeeper Mary Earps 2023 Sports Personality of the Year?

England goalkeeper Mary Earps has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year.  She was a big part of the Lionesses' win at the Euros in 2022 and was named goalkeeper of the tournament in this year's World Cup.  But back in 2019 she was ready to quit the game.  Jessica Creighton speaks to Rebecca Myers from the The Sunday Times about Earps' bumpy road to success.

Kelly Simmons has recently left the Football Association after 32 years with the organisation. Best known for her time as Director of the Women’s Professional Game, Kelly joins Jessica to discuss her long career and the future of the Women’s Super League which she helped to launch and transform.

A breakthrough on why women get pregnancy sickness could open the way to finding a cure. Scientists have discovered a hormone that causes nausea and vomiting in pregnant women, sometimes to the extent that they get Hyperemesis Gravidarum – the most severe form of sickness often resulting in hospitalisation. Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at Cambridge University Sir Stephen O’Rahilly and CEO of the charity Pregnancy Sickness Support Charlotte Howden join Jessica to discuss the implications of this discovery.

Could planning for a simpler, more realistic January be the best way to help your mental health this Christmas? Author and psychological decluttering expert Cathy Madavan and clinical psychologist Dr Emma Hepburn join Jessica to discuss why less might mean more as we move into the new year.

'Go to the front line yourself - and die'. Those are the reported words of the wives and girlfriends of Russian soldiers to Vladimir Putin, who they are addressing on a Telegram channel called The Way Home. According to UK estimates, 300,000 military personnel from Russia have died during the war in Ukraine. Jessica gets insights from Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

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