Reporter and TV presenter Stacey Dooley opens up the conversation about mental health in young people, to challenge the stigma and stereotypes around it.Stacey Dooley has been presenting television documentaries for over 10 years – on everything from drug cartels in Southern Spain to illegal pornography in South Korea. Now the Sunday Times bestselling author has released a new book, exploring the state of mental health in the UK.
Yesterday on the programme we discussed the culture of policing in the light of misogynistic, discriminatory and violent texts exchanged between serving officers between 2016 and 2018. They were revealed as part of an IOPC investigation at Charing Cross police station in London. These revelations follow the murder of Sarah Everard and the treatment of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman by serving Metropolitan Police officers.
Two women with no previous rowing experience have smashed the world record for the fastest female pair to row across the Atlantic. Jessica Oliver and Charlotte Harris rowed 3000 miles over 45 days in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, battling 30 ft waves, sharks and sleep deprivation. They join us to discuss the experience.
Some of Afghanistan's public universities reopened yesterday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to classes. Girls are still not allowed to attend secondary schools, and women remain barred from many jobs outside the health and teaching sector. This is unfolding against the backdrop of a major humanitarian crisis.
You know the rhyme “divorced beheaded died, divorced, beheaded, survived.” The first women to lose her head at the hands of Henry VIII was Anne Boleyn - and her story is so often characterised by that tragic outcome that we may have overlooked the fact that she was a feminist and ahead of her time. This is the view of Dr Owen Emmerson who has curated an exhibition at Hever Castle - Anne's childhood home - called Becoming Anne: Connections, Culture, Court.
DrOwenEmmerson TracyBorman Emmabarnett BBC continue to advocate for a political movement in breach of it's own Charter. DefundTheBBC
DrOwenEmmerson TracyBorman Emmabarnett Is throwing another woman under the figurative bus to get a man feminism? Is wanting your step daughter killed feminism? Of all the wives, Katherine Parr was the closest to a feminist, not AB.
DrOwenEmmerson TracyBorman Emmabarnett The concept didn't exist. She was a social climber, and why not? But I don't see her as a feminist
DrOwenEmmerson TracyBorman Emmabarnett Feminism did not exist. Ann was one of the very few exceptions. Even noble women subscribed to the women as the weaker sex idea.
No necesariamente.
DrOwenEmmerson TracyBorman Emmabarnett Was Anne Boleyn a feminist? The first wife of Henry VIII to lose her head is so often characterised by her tragic outcome that we may have overlooked the fact that she was ahead of her time.
DrOwenEmmerson TracyBorman Emmabarnett 'Ahead'...no pun intended?
DrOwenEmmerson TracyBorman Emmabarnett Her head was way ahead of her to..into the basket! :P
Emmabarnett ‘mental health emergency’
Emmabarnett It's always good to look at cause rather than effect. How much does the book explore politics, lies, media, money etc ?