Saxophonist Nubya Garcia, Rainbow babies, Insomnia, Vaccine passports

Published: Aug. 2, 2021, 10:44 a.m.

Over the weekend Carrie Johnson announced she was expecting another baby describing it as a "rainbow" baby because she'd experienced a miscarriage earlier this year. Ruth Bender Atik from The Miscarriage Association talks to Andrea.\nJournalist Miranda Levy describes her new book, \u2018The Insomnia Diaries\u2019, as a \u2018self-help\u2019 memoir looking at eight and a half years of disabling insomnia. Miranda recovered and has used her experience to explain what she thinks we should do when facing insomnia and- what NOT to do. Daisy Maskell is a tv and radio presenter. In a soon-to-be-aired BBC 3 documentary she says she realised at the age of nine that she didn\u2019t sleep like other people. They join Andrea.\nWatching the Olympics on TV is not what Amber Hill imagined she would be doing. The night before she was due to leave the UK for Tokyo, the 23 year old shooter had to withdraw from the Games after testing positive for Covid. She was due to compete in the Women's Olympics Skeet competition, in which she was a finalist in Rio in 2016. This time she was number one in the world and hopeful of a gold medal but had to watch the American, Amber English, take the medal.\nAre vaccine passports gendered? Dr Clare Wenham who's an Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at LSE says introducing them will limit women\u2019s public opportunities and further entrench the gendered norms of men at work and women in the home which have been compounded over the last year. \nBritish saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia has been nominated for a Mercury Prize, and is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent. She makes her Proms debut later this month, performing music from her album Source.

Presenter: Andrea Catherwood\nProducer: Lucinda Montefiore