Broader View

Host of Broader View, Mirelle Harris, explores the impact of teenage pregnancy on the lives of young people, hearing inspiring stories and meeting some of the health professionals involved in their care.

Host Mirelle Harris explores sex and relationship education in schools. Are we delivering good quality teaching to young people or are we failing to give them what they need to make informed, healthy and safe decisions? The current Sex and Relationship Education Guidance was written in 2000, when the internet was in its infancy, there was little social media and few mobile phones in our pockets. Gender issues were generally not discussed and heterosexual relationships were promoted as the norm. The government recently launched a consultation to look at updating the curriculum, to see what may now need to be included to help young people make educated and informed decisions about their lives, based on fact and not myth. Mirelle talks to top professionals to gather information and to young people to hear about their personal experiences of sex and relationship education in the classroom. @broaderviewpod broaderviewpodcast@gmail.com

In this episode, host Mirelle Harris looks at the topical and emotive subject of abortion in the UK. It’s 50 years since the Abortion Act came into effect in Great Britain, which allowed the ending of pregnancies by registered practitioners, under certain conditions, though this didn’t include Northern Ireland. Without those ‘certain conditions’ in place, abortion is a criminal offence. Mirelle meets policy makers responsible for making laws, medical professionals working in hospitals and clinics, and speaks to groups opposed to abortion under any circumstance; She also hears intimate stories from women who have experienced abortion. @broaderviewpod broaderviewpodcast@gmail.com

Host Mirelle Harris explores what it means to be transgender. Is gender something that has been invented by society? What actually makes a woman or a man? What impact will the recent consultation of the Gender Recognition Act have on the debate? We meet Juno Roche, writer, campaigner and transgender woman; Olivia Palmer from Mayday for Women, a radical feminist group that opposes any changes felt to endanger female spaces; and Hannah Witton, sex and relationships YouTuber and author. Mirelle also speaks to activist and writer, Sugar Swan; Jamie Pallas from Gendered Intelligence; hears the experiences of Lizzie Smyth who wanted to transition; and talks to users of a ladies only pool in London. There are also interviews with Stephanie Davis-Arai from Transgender Trend; and Lucy Jeffries from Quiet Down There, who organises artist led projects for young people, including Hijack, which aims to start them thinking about gender equality. Twitter/Instagram: @broaderviewpod Email: broaderviewpodcast@gmail.com

Taking a look at issues around sexual health and lifestyle to raise awareness, remove stigma and create understanding. We'll be hearing personal stories and speaking to experts in the field. Presented by Mirelle Harris, produced by Penny Bell and WBBC.