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Apr 2022
58m 1s

Fiona Hill, Baby loss, Why do we lie?

Bbc Radio 4
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As the Ukraine conflict rages on, questions have arisen over what the endgame is for Russian President Vladimir Putin. There have been continued reports of rape and violence being used against Ukrainian civilians by Russian soldiers. Durham-born Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, has been a foreign policy adviser for three United States Presidents. Seen as one of the foremost experts on Russia, she joins Krupa live in the studio to talk about the invasion and what happens next.

The footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodriguez have announced the death of their baby boy at birth. The couple were expecting twins. Their baby girl survived. Clea Harmer is CEO of the charity Sands, she joined Krupa alongside Katie Harris, who lost one of her twin daughters, Abikara, during pregnancy.

Women live longer than men in the UK but new analysis shows that life expectancy for women living in the poorest 10 percent of areas in England is lower than overall life expectancy in any OECD country except Mexico. Figures from 2019 show that millions of women living in the most deprived areas of England can expect to live 78.7 years compared to 86.4 in England’s wealthiest areas. Jo Bibby is from The Health Foundation and Alice Wiseman is the Director of Public Health in Gateshead.

Why do we lie? Do men and women lie differently? In her new book The Social Superpower, Kathleen Wyatt looks at lies from many perspectives and reveals her own history of lying.

The latest in our series Threads about the emotional resonance of old clothes. Listener Helen tells the story of the skirt she made from bits of curtain and old dresses to go to the Reading Festival in 1973.

Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Emma Pearce

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