Anita Rani

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

Women are being offered fake weight loss drugs.

That's just, that's who we are.

That's what we do.

And I don't know if you're aware of the phrase, Anita, flying by the seat of your pants.

Maybe.

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

We will be remembering the broadcasting pioneer and campaigner Dame Esther Ranson this morning, who has died at 86.

Yes.

Something I adopted from Anita Rani's Sisters of Defiance podcast.

And obviously being a yoga therapist, I work a lot with the breath.

So life changing.

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

Just to say that for rights reasons, the

music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

50 years after it premiered on Broadway, the play For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enough has got its first major London production, described as a choreopoem, a series of poems connected by music that look into the issues affecting the African-American women telling their stories of oppression in a racist and and sexist society.

So why is it easy to get the coil for contraception but not otherwise?

Anita, it is a complete postcode lottery as to what women can achieve or get or, or not get.

If Hattie had come to our service, there'd have been no questions asked about whether she was eligible or not eligible.

She would have had that coil fitted.

Be- well, because of the money is not flowing with the patient.

So Hattie goes to a service, and they would say, "Yeah, absolutely, you could have it for contraception," but because this is a gynae cause, the money comes from somewhere else, so therefore we can't do it for you.

Now, that's not consistent though, Anita, so it doesn't happen in every service.

Yeah.

So I'm really conscious.

This conscious breath is something I've introduced just in the past few weeks, adopted from Anita Rani's Sisters of Defiance podcast.

And I love it.

I'm a yoga therapist as well, do a lot of breath work.

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

Hello and welcome to the programme.

and follow at schwab.com slash washington wise or wherever you listen

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

More than a thousand children have died in a measles outbreak in Bangladesh.

... on shows? How did you deal with that?

They thought I was Anita Rani, so they didn't care.

[laughs]

[laughs]

Do you get...

Does that happen to you?

Well, no, 'cause they've got Anita Rani now as well.

[laughs]