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Woman's Hour

Lady Glenconner, Ukraine, Clever girls, The Clitoris

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Lady Glenconner, Anne Tennant, the eldest child of the fifth Earl of Leicester, was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades. She says her mother brought her up to cope with a fundamental truth of her class and time: women must put up and shut up, and so had been taught to smile through life in high society despite the brutality of a husband who left her deaf in one ear. After the success of her first memoir three years ago a second has just been published. Joining Emma live in the studio she explains why she was compelled to write Whatever Next? Lessons From An Unexpected Life. President Zelensky has accused Russia of "crimes against humanity" after a new missile barrage caused blackouts across Ukraine. Yesterday we heard of a two day old baby dying when a maternity unit was bombed in the southern Zaporizhia region. How are these developments affecting women and girls? Emma hears from Jess Parker, BBC Correspondent in Ukraine at the moment. This Saturday, the Ukrainian Institute in London, alongside other organisations, have organised an event to discuss sexual violence in the war in Ukraine. Emma talks to one of the speakers, Anna Kvit, a research fellow at University College London looking into women in war and their response to war. With the release of Matilda the Musical in cinemas this week, Emma Barnett speaks to author and podcaster Daisy Buchanan and QI Elf and writer Anne Miller about being so-called 'girly swots' at school and how it has shaped them in adulthood. You may have heard that the clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings, but that number comes from a 1970s study on cows. New research shows the clitoris actually has over 10,000 nerve endings. Does this increase in number matter? Emma asks science journalist Rachel E Gross and Dr Brooke Vandermolen, an NHS Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar.

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0:00.0

Hello Tim Harford here, I'm the undercover economist, the presenter of Radio 4's More or

0:07.0

Less and more pertently right now, the host of a new Radio 4 podcast, Understand The Economy.

0:16.3

Each episode I'll help cut to the fog of financial jargon to bring you to the crisp, bright

0:21.4

daylight of understanding the world around us.

0:24.4

If you don't really understand what inflation is, why mortgage rates have shot up or what

0:29.8

that GDP thing stands for, this is the podcast for you.

0:34.6

That's Understand The Economy, available now on BBC Sounds.

0:39.8

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's R from BBC Radio 4.

0:51.2

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:53.5

You know those discoveries about women, something perhaps we've been thinking is the case

0:57.2

and then turns out to be completely different simply because no research was done or no

1:02.3

adequate research.

1:03.3

Well, I have one of those for you today because it turns out scientists have recently discovered

1:08.4

that the clitoris has 10,000 nerve endings, not 8,000 as originally thought.

1:14.8

Why this update?

1:16.4

Because new research has actually been performed on women as opposed to cows, a kid you

1:21.3

not, and that's the study the earlier figure was relying on and it was from the 70s.

1:26.2

Well, guess into the science in more detail later in the programme, but I did want to ask

1:30.4

you today, with new information still coming to light about major parts of women's bodies

1:35.0

and so much research still yet to do.

1:37.8

How did you first learn about the clitoris?

1:40.7

Was it a word you heard from someone?

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