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Woman's Hour

Businesswoman Sara Davies, Holiday without kids, Restless Leg Syndrome

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a business idea that you would realise, if only you had the time? Sara Davies firmly believes we’re all capable of creating a successful business from scratch, in just six minutes a week. The Dragon’s Den star set up Crafter's Companion while she was still a student and has since built it into a multi-million pound business. Now she’s sharing what she’s learned in her new book – The Six Minute Entrepreneur: 52 short lessons for long-term business success.

Frankie Bridge has hit out at ‘double standards’ for women after she received a backlash online for going on holiday without her children. The Loose Women presenter was called ‘the worst wife and mother’ in comments on her social media post, after she took a break with her friend following health struggles. Her husband and mother were looking after her two sons. She joins Nuala, along with parenting coach Camilla McGill.

Women prescribed drugs for movement disorders such as Restless Leg Syndrome are not being warned by doctors about serious side effects which have turned them into sex and gambling addicts – according to a BBC investigation. These women say these drugs were so powerful that they changed their behaviour entirely and ruined their lives. BBC News Investigations correspondent Noel Titheradge joins Nuala, along with a woman we are calling Lucy who developed three serious addictions while on the drugs, and professor of neuropsychiatry at Cambridge University, Valerie Voon.

Hilary Brown was ABC News’s first female foreign correspondent. She was one of the first women to be posted to war zones at a time where many women were just entering the workplace for the first time. Nuala talks to her about her life and career.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.

0:09.3

I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II.

0:17.6

What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.

0:22.0

Tales of deception and incredible acts of resistance and courage.

0:26.3

She was a born soldier.

0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

0:29.9

The brand new series of history's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.4

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:40.7

Hello, this is Newell and McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.

0:46.0

It is indeed, hello and welcome to the programme.

0:48.7

Well, entrepreneurs and those nursing a dream of entrepreneurship, take note.

0:53.2

We have Sarah Davies with us.

0:54.6

The businesswoman known to Manny from Dragonsden

0:56.9

will bring us some of her six-minute lessons

0:59.3

that are compiled in her new book.

1:01.7

Also coming up, Frankie Bridge,

1:03.2

the Saturday star and loose women presenter.

1:06.5

Frankie posted on Instagram that she was called

1:08.8

The Worst Wife and Mother

1:10.6

for going on holiday with a friend without her kids or her husband.

1:14.9

Here's a smattering off those comments.

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