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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Chinese PHD student Zhenhao Zou was recently convicted for drugging and raping 10 different women in both London and China. Police only managed to identify two of those 10 women, but have just announced that a further 23 women have now come forward with allegations. No victims have given media interviews before but Wanqing Zhang, senior reporter from the BBC’s Global China Unit, has managed to make contact with two of the women.
Sally Phillips is the actor, writer, comedian, presenter and disability rights campaigner. Her career includes successful television British comedies such as Smack the Pony, I’m Alan Partridge, and Miranda. And she has recently reprised her role as Shazzer, in the latest Bridget Jones film - Mad About the Boy. She joins Datshiane Navanayagam to talk about her new BBC comedy series, Austin, playing an illustrator married to a much-loved children’s author performed by Ben Miller.
Social media influencer Danielle Mansutti says she is suing a Harley Street plastic surgeon after she says she was left with what she describes as overly large breasts and what she says is 'a poor cosmetic appearance'. If you are someone who has an elective cosmetic procedure - how much control can you expect to have over the end result? Marc Pacifico, an aesthetic cosmetic surgeon and President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and Ashton Collins, Director of Save Face - a UK-based register of safe, ethical, and qualified medical aesthetic practitioners, discuss.
The Neonatal Care Act starts next week. It allows employed parents to take up to 12 weeks of additional leave on top of their maternity or paternity leave if their newborn baby stays in hospital for more than seven days. We hear from Catriona Ogilvy, founder of premature baby charity The Smallest Things, who has been fighting for this law change for 10 years.
How much do you worry about the amount of time your child or children spend on their phone or computer? Have you tried to do something to limit access? We were contacted by a concerned listener who has two children aged 12 and 15. She would like tech companies to help support putting restrictions in place. To discuss the dilemma for parents and what parents can do we hear from BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
Presenter: Datshiane Navanayagam Producer: Kirsty Starkey
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0:00.0 | Why would anyone want to steal a toilet? |
0:05.0 | If they think they can get away with it, they'll get away with it. |
0:08.0 | But this isn't any old toilet. |
0:11.0 | This is a solid gold toilet, worth nearly five million pounds, stolen from a palace. |
0:17.0 | A solid gold toilet has been stolen. |
0:20.0 | Police are trying to flush the robbers out. |
0:23.0 | It's a tale of security failures, ruthless robbers and missing millions. |
0:27.7 | Crime next door, the golden toilet heist. |
0:30.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:33.3 | Hello, I'm Dashiani Novenygham and welcome to Women's Hour on BBC Radio 4. |
0:38.7 | Hello and a very warm welcome to the programme this morning. |
0:42.2 | In just a few moments, the actor Sally Phillips will be joining me in the Woman's Hour studio. |
0:47.2 | You'll know her from hit comedy shows like Smack the Pony and Miranda, |
0:50.9 | and of course, as Shazza in Bridget Jones, how could we forget? |
0:54.7 | I'll be chatting to her about her latest comedy show called Austin, set between Australia and the UK, |
1:00.7 | which has been called a laugh-out-loud must-see. |
1:03.9 | Also today, the woman who's campaigned for more than a decade for parents of babies in neonatal care to get extended parental leave. |
1:11.9 | The Neonatal Care Act comes into effect on Sunday. |
1:15.2 | We'll find out how far it goes and whether more needs to be done. |
1:18.9 | And are you a parent who restricts your kid's screen time? |
1:22.2 | Maybe you don't or you've given up. |
1:24.1 | How is that working out for you? |
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