Exercise at home, Safe access to abortion during Covid-19, Lauren Gunderson, Jessica Moor

Published: March 27, 2020, 1:13 p.m.

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Keeping up fitness when you're isolated at home. Jenni talks to fitness instructor Rosemary Mallace of Over Fifty Fitness and Professor Janet Lord, an expert in muscle health and immunity from the University of Birmingham, about why keeping moving is particularly important as you get older and what you can do to exercise at home.

Earlier this week the Government published advice that women could be prescribed both abortion pills for a medical abortion, which they would be able to take at home, without attending a hospital or clinic. It has since said that this was published in error. With women trying to observe instructions to stay at home \\u2013 some self-isolating \\u2013 trying to reduce the spread of Coronavirus the British Pregnancy Advisory Service says that 500 women a day must make unnecessary journeys, with services and clinic closures forcing them to travel greater distances. So, how can those women who need an abortion access one safely and legally? Jenni speaks to Professor Lesley Regan, Past President RCOG and Co-Chair National Women\\u2019s Health Task Force and to Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow.

Hampstead Theatre in London is currently streaming on Instagram, \\u2018I and You\\u2019 a play they produced in 2018 starring Maisie Williams in her first stage role. It looks at the struggle a teenager finding herself restricted to her home. The playwright, Lauren Gunderson, currently the most produced living playwright in the US, tells us about her play and what it says about the struggles of youth confined across the globe.

Keeper by Jessica Moor is a novel set in a women\\u2019s refuge. Katie, an employee there, has died. As the women in the refuge insist Katie didn\\u2019t take her own life the police are forced to investigate. Jenni talks to debut novelist Jessica Moor and to Natasha Saunders who has experience of domestic abuse and of life in a refuge. What can fiction do to shed light on domestic abuse?

Presented by Jenni Murray\\nProduced by Jane Thurlow

Interviewed guest: Stella Creasy\\nInterviewed guest: Lesley Regan\\nInterviewed guest: Lauren Gunderson\\nInterviewed guest: Jessica Moor\\nInterviewed guest: Natasha Saunders\\nInterviewed guest: Rosemary Mallace\\nInterviewed guest: Janet Lord

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