Weekend Woman's Hour: Couple Counselling, Pregnancy Sickness, Barbara Thompson

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Could relationship counselling help boost couples chances of staying together, manage conflict and communicate better? Listeners tell us how they have dealt with a relationship crisis. One year on from the abduction of 219 Nigerian Girls by the militant group Boko Haram, Dr Fatima Akilu tells us about the counter terrorism programme she has helped to design. Caitlin Dean of Pregnancy Sickness Support explains why severe and debilitating pregnancy sickness needs to be taken more seriously in the medical profession. Professor Dame Carol Robinson has just been awarded the European Laureate award making her the fifth British Scientist to have won the award in the last 17 years. She tells us about gas phase structural biology, leaving school at 16 and inspiring women to become scientists. Author and journalist, Robin Rinaldi, describes what it was like to spend a year living in an open marriage. Plus saxophonist, Barbara Thompson, tells us what it's like living with Parkinson's disease.