BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Singer, Sophie Ellis-Bextor; Breast reconstruction delays; Urban hermits; Predatory marriage

Singer, Sophie Ellis-Bextor; Breast reconstruction delays; Urban hermits; Predatory marriage

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - seven albums, five children, a podcast, Live Kitchen Discos and now a memoir...Sophie Ellis-Bextor has seven albums, five children, a podcast and her Live Kitchen Discos during lockdown were a means of virtual escapism for many, and became weekly moments of united sequined catharsis. She joins Emma to discuss her memoir Spinning Plates: Music, Men, Motherhood and Me.

Surgeons say women are being refused reconstructive breast surgery on the NHS, even though there are now ways of performing the operation more quickly. The confederation of British surgery say the procedure can be reduced from the traditional 8-12 hours down to 2-3, and hospital stays from 7 days to just 72 hours. Yet surgeons say many NHS Trusts still deem breast reconstruction as ‘cosmetic’, and are performing less than two-thirds of the amount of reconstructions they were pre-Covid.

There are an estimated 1000 hermits living in Italy - and the majority of them are women. The history of female hermits goes back hundreds of years, with many choosing to remove themselves from a life of marriage and domesticity to a world of study, devotion and freedom from the expectations of society.

Predatory marriage involves a vulnerable adult being led into a marriage which financially benefits their new spouse. We discuss with Daphne Franks, who believes that her mother was a victim of a predatory marriage; and Dr Rachael Clawson, Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Nottingham.

SophieEB I can’t be the only person who thinks boasting/making light of having 5 children is not ok/cool, think I may have heard it said, she may have a 6Th😠😰 This is utterly selfish & imagine, like many well off, middle class people “cares about the environment “?😡

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