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...

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...

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...

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.