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Listener Week: Day Five
August 23, 2019 10:43 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBListener Trisha wonders why people seem find it odd that she and her adult son get on so well - she and her daughter don’t get the same surprised reaction when they spend time together. So why the difference? Following the death of her husband, listener Suzie Ladbrooke lost her appetite and has no pleasure in eating alone. She wants to know how other people adapt after a family loss. She is joined by nutritionist Jane Clarke. Another listener contacted us to talk about living in private...
Listener Week: Day Four
August 22, 2019 11:13 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBDay Four of Listener Week. One Listener wanted us to talk about how you get over falling out with your best friend. Doreen and Virginia wondered if they're members of the longest running Book Club - which began in 1965. Twenty year old Sophie Taylor got in touch seeking advice for female entrepreneurs like herself. And Wandja Kimani asked us to discuss carving out a life in a community when you find yourself in a minority. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Beverley Purcell Guest; Anna...
Parenting: raising sons to be good men
August 21, 2019 14:10 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBHow do you teach gender equality to boys?
Listener Week: Day Three
August 21, 2019 11:40 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBListener Ellie Kemp wants to raise the subject of school Parent Teacher Associations and the difficulties they face in finding parents who have the time or the confidence to volunteer, particularly in rural areas, as well as the increasing reliance schools have on the money they raise. She is Chair of her son’s school PTA. What is the role of PTAs, what part do they play in children’s learning and what are the benefits for the volunteers and pupils? With Gill Sims, illustrator, blogger and ...
Listener Week: Day Two
August 20, 2019 12:09 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBCatherine wrote to us about the wellness industry. She asks whether its relentless focus on improvement whether through diet, exercise or psychological tools such as mindfulness contributes to yet more pressure, particularly for women, to live the perfect life. At the age of 59 Annie is going back to university. She wants to talk about what she should wear. She's frightened of sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the other students on the course. A personal stylist and a fashion editor ...
Listener Week: Day One
August 19, 2019 11:48 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBThis week Woman's Hour is all yours. We've had loads of emails and tweets about what you want us to talk about this week. Today we hear from Heidi who wants us to explore a kind of ADHD which is the Inattentive type and affects girls. Heidi is joined by Dr Céline Ryckaert who explains how and why it can be hard to diagnose in young girls and women. We've also got Marilyn on. Not only is she a regular listener but she's a psychotherapist and new mum. She wants us to discuss what she cal...
17/08/2019
August 17, 2019 16:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBSomaliland’s first midwife, first Foreign Minister and former First Lady, Edna Adan Ismail tells us what galvanised her campaign to end the practice of FGM and why now in her 80s she still works at the hospital she helped to build in her homeland. We discuss the rise and fall of the bonkbuster with the author Lauren Milne Henderson, Maisie Lawrence editor at Bookouture and Sareeta Domingo editor at Mills and Boon. The Composer Errollyn Wallen’s work stretches back four decades, she tells u...
Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls and Rohingya women refugees
August 16, 2019 10:46 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBThe Country Girls by the Irish author Edna O’ Brien was banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burn publically in her hometown when it was first published in the 1960’s. This story of female friendship and the restrictions of rural Irish life for women became a best seller and the first of a trilogy now recognised as an iconic work of twentieth century Irish fiction. BBC Radio 4 is dramatizing all three books and Jenni speaks to Lin Coghlan who has adapted it for radio and the literary cr...
Award-winning author and former Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman
August 15, 2019 10:56 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBAward-winning author and former Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman discusses Crossfire, the new novel in her Noughts and Crosses series, which will also be a BBC TV series starring Stormzy. A family must prove whose parent died first in an extraordinary inheritance battle. That was the situation at the high court this week, which resolved a dispute between two sparring stepsisters. But it is also the plot of Dorothy L Sayer’s much-loved novel The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. So how ...
Parenting: Talking to Your Kids About Race and Racism
August 14, 2019 11:21 - 17 minutes - 16 MBTalking to your kids about race and racism with Dr Pragya Agarwal and Freddie Harrel.
Edna Adan Ismail, Smear Tests Over 50
August 14, 2019 10:49 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBEdna Adan Ismail has spent her life improving women's health in Africa, campaigning to end FGM and becoming Somaliland’s first midwife. She was also its first Foreign Minister and is a former First Lady. She was the daughter of a doctor in Somaliland at a time when educating women was frowned upon. She saw for herself how poor health care, lack of education and superstition had a devastating effect, especially on women. At eight years old she herself went through FGM and it was supported b...
Talking to your kids about race, HRT shortages, and the demise of the bonkbuster novel
August 13, 2019 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBTalking to your kids about race. The UK is currently facing a shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). What should you do if your normal supply of HRT tablets, skin patches or gels is unavailable? We hear from GP & menopause specialist Dr Hannah Short. Plus Jane Garvey visits Kitty's Launderette in Anfield which provides much needed washing facilities in one of Liverpool's most deprived areas. And we ask; Why have so called "bonkbuster" novels fallen out of favour with women...
School holidays
August 12, 2019 11:41 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBToday’s programme is dedicated to the challenges and joys of the long summer weeks out of school. Is boredom good? Will children fall behind on their learning? How can you be sure your teenagers are safe while you’re at work? Jane also hears about the impact of holiday food poverty on children with parents on low incomes. Plus minimalist camping tips to get children off their screens and outside. Jane is joined by: Juliet Benis, Primary Head Teacher Carmel McConnell MBE, Founder of M...
Director and actor Kathy Burke on her new series of documentaries: All Woman
August 10, 2019 16:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBDirector, actor Kathy Burke on her new series of documentaries for Channel 4 “All Woman” which are about appearance, motherhood, marriage and relationships. We’ll be talking about women’s finances and the changes to income when women have a family. There's music from the Scottish songwriter Karine Polwart. Dr Amy Kavanagh a disability campaigner tells us about her experiences of harassment in public spaces. Plus a look at how to use the last few weeks of the holidays to prepare...
Kathy Burke, Menopause, Kajal Odedra
August 09, 2019 10:55 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBKathy Burke: actor, comedian, theatre director and for many people, a national treasure. She's got a new TV series starting next week which explores what it means to be a woman today. It looks at attitudes to beauty, motherhood and relationships. So what's she learnt from the experience? There's been a lot of publicity this week around a surgical procedure designed to delay the menopause by 20 years. Today we discuss whether the menopause really needs fixing. To talk about it, we have Dr. ...
Parenting: Children who attack their parents
August 08, 2019 11:51 - 9 minutes - 8.64 MBPolice forces across the country have found that the number of crimes involving children attacking their parents has doubled in the last three years from 7,000 to 14,000. The figures have been uncovered by BBC Yorkshire after they made a Freedom of Information request. They were invited to attend a course in Doncaster called Getting On. It’s one of a handful of similar schemes around the country which aim to help parents and children find a solution to this type of abuse. Jenni speaks to Emm...
Money - why women need to talk about money
August 08, 2019 11:22 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBWoman’s Hour talks about money. Over their lives, women earn less and save less than men – and, very often, find they need more of it. Research consistently suggests that women are less likely to talk about personal finances or to seek financial advice, but far more likely to worry about it than men. We look at how we manage our relationship with money and, at what our relationships can do to our cash-flow. And, we ask what part the government, work places and financial intuitions can play in...
Remembering Toni Morrison
August 07, 2019 11:07 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBWe remember the woman considered the greatest American writer of the twentieth century – the Nobel Prize winner, Toni Morrison, who died on Monday. The number of crimes being reported to the police involving children attacking their parents has doubled in the last three years from around 7,000 to 14,000 incidents. That’s according to data obtained by BBC Yorkshire following Freedom of Information requests. The BBC has been given exclusive access to the ‘Getting On’ course in Doncaster. It’s ...
The Yardley Girls, Harassment of disabled women in public spaces
August 06, 2019 12:04 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBDisability campaigner Dr Amy Kavanagh describes how she experienced harassment in public spaces when she started to use a white cane. Now she has started a project with Dr Hannah Mason-Bish, Director of Centre for Gender Studies at Sussex University to tackle the issue and the intrusions that she and many others face. ‘Beauty is your duty’ was an official propaganda campaign during WWII and the wearing of bright red lipstick seemed to be a patriotic duty and flash of glamour during to...
Hints and tips on helping your child settle into primary school.
August 05, 2019 11:30 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBHints and tips on helping your child settle into primary school from early years consultant Helen Stroudley and mum of two Vibha Ghei who are part of a new BBC Bitesize Campaign. According to the TUC, half of women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. Rights of Women have just launched the only specialist free legal advice line in England and Wales to help them. We hear more from Deeba Syed, senior legal advisor from Rights of Women, and Dame Heather Rabbatts, Chair of ...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Gemma Chan, Lyra McKee's sister, Endometriosis, 15-minute home care visits
August 03, 2019 16:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThe journalist and writer, Lyra McKee was shot dead in Londonderry nearly four months ago. She had been watching rioting in the Creggan area of the city. Her book Angels With Blue Faces, written before her death has just been published. We hear from her sister Nichola Corner. Careworker Caroline inspired this week’s drama serial Flying Visits. Frustrated by the requirement to keep her home visits to fifteen minutes, she made an impassioned speech to councillors in Southwark, London which led...
Lyra McKee's book 'Angels With Blue Faces'
August 02, 2019 11:09 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBIt’s been nearly four months since the young journalist and writer, Lyra McKee, was shot in Londonderry; she had been watching rioting in the Creggan area of the city. She had just written a book called 'Angels With Blue Faces' and a week before she died, had approved the cover for it. Lyra didn’t get to see it published, but this afternoon it will officially be launched in The Linen Hall Library in Belfast, where she did most of her research. Her sister Nichola speaks to us from Belfast. ...
Rural domestic abuse, Endometriosis, making fun of your mum
August 01, 2019 11:30 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBWomen in rural areas are half as likely to report domestic abuse as those in urban ones. Judith, who moved to the Scottish Highlands from London, tells reporter Kathleen Garragher about the culture of privacy and keeping yourself to yourself. When her husband became abusive she didn’t feel able to ask for help. Endometriosis is a serious and lifelong disease which affects as many as 1 in 10 women. But it often goes undiagnosed. Karen Havelin has turned her experience of the disease into a no...
Actor Gemma Chan. Who is Princess Haya? Rediscovering picture books. Summer wardrobe staples, the kaftan.
July 31, 2019 10:28 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBGemma Chan talks about her role in the Channel 4 drama "I Am Hannah" - a woman in her mid-thirties struggling with the pressure to settle down and start a family. The ruler of Dubai and his estranged wife, Princess Haya, are in court this week battling over the welfare of their children. Princess Haya fled Dubai earlier this year and has been reportedly living in hiding in London. We hear from Louise Callaghan, Middle East Correspondent for the Sunday Times, who's been following the Duba...
Screen Time, Care Workers, Cook The Perfect
July 30, 2019 10:34 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThe long summer holidays have started and you'll have heard by now that the runner-up of The Fortnite World Cup was Jaden Ashman, a British 15-year-old who won nearly a million pounds. In the run up to the computer tournament he was spending more than eight hours a day in front of a screen. We know that screen time already causes lots of family arguments so what will happen now when your child says gaming could win them a fortune, just like Jaden? We talk to Mark Griffiths, Professor of Be...
Theresa May's Legacy for Tory Women, Angélique Kidjo, Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin
July 29, 2019 11:40 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThe UK’s second female Prime Minister stepped down last week after a turbulent three years in office. In the last few weeks commentators have picked over Theresa May’s failure to deliver Brexit, her loss of the Conservative majority in the 2017 General Election and her limited progress in tackling the burning injustices she described on the steps of Downing Street in 2016. Today, we turn to a subject that Woman’s Hour first interviewed Theresa May about nearly 20 years ago, encouraging women ...
The best of Takeover week
July 27, 2019 16:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBDany Cotton the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade talks about how she dealt with trauma in her years as a firefighter. Dr John Green Chief Psychologist for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Gill Scott-Moore CEO of Police Care UK discuss how best to help first responders with their mental health. We discuss the power of grime music to politically engage young people with the campaigner Amika George, Dr Joy White who has a Phd in Grime and the author and performer De...
Takeover 2019 - Dany Cotton, Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade
July 26, 2019 11:44 - 51 minutes - 47 MBDany Cotton says, 'I was thrilled to take part in this year’s Takeover and talk about topics I’m passionate about - I have managed to include something tasty, something fluffy and something serious! I will be explaining to the listeners the benefits of therapy dogs and why I will be getting one for London Fire Brigade. I also wanted to talk about an issue I have seen throughout my 32 year career – mental health and how it can affect first responders. I love cooking and I’m sure I was a mouse...
Takeover 2019 - Cressida Cowell, Children's Laureate
July 25, 2019 10:51 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBCressida Cowell says, "I will be talking about the thoroughly modern magic of reading and how that magic can and must be made accessible to absolutely everybody. Also I'll be talking exclusively to Woman's Hour about lost ancestors including an extraordinary but forgotten relative of mine, plus the vital importance of diverse authors and heroes for children, and funny words for the countryside, the words we are losing and our worrying disconnect with nature." Presenter: Jenni Murray Intervi...
Takeover 2019 - Amika George, teenage campaigner who started #FreePeriods
July 24, 2019 10:59 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBAmika George is a 19 year old student, activist, and founder of #FreePeriods. She's been campaigning to combat period poverty in schools. 200,000 signed her petition and almost 2,000 teenagers protested outside Downing Street. Two years on, the government has pledged to end period poverty by offering free menstrual products in all English primary and secondary schools by 2020. Amika George says "I’m so thrilled to be a guest editor of Woman’s Hour'. Her chosen topics range from access and...
Takeover 2019 - Harriet Wistrich, lawyer and founder of Centre for Women's Justice
July 23, 2019 11:53 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBHarriet Wistrich is a human rights lawyer and founder and director of the Centre for Women's Justice. Her cases are consistently in the news – the fight to keep the so-called ‘black cab rapist’, John Worboys in prison and the release of Sally Challen, who had been imprisoned for the murder of her abusive husband. As part of our Takeover week Harriet discusses surviving a disabled sibling, her admiration for Claudia Clare a ‘subversive ceramicist’, the treatment of women accused of lying about...
Takeover 2019 - Nadiya Hussain, TV cook, author, presenter
July 22, 2019 13:22 - 54 minutes - 50 MBNadiya Hussain says, "My edition of Woman’s Hour focuses on time, and our lack of it! Having enough ‘time’ for everything feels like a constant battle. We're juggling childcare and career demands and I wonder whether women are feeling the pressure more than ever before, and more than men. I'm looking at what we can do to relax and switch off, and tell you what works for me!" To talk a bit more about Nadiya's ideas we're joined by the food writer Bee Wilson, gardener Hollie Newton and psychol...
Black maternal health, Netball World Cup, Imposter Syndrome
July 20, 2019 15:58 - 56 minutes - 52 MBBlack women are five times more likely to die in childbirth compared to white women. We hear the personal experiences of two women: Candice Brathwaite who got sepsis after her caesarean section and Remi Sade who felt she was pushed towards a more medically managed birth than she wanted. We also hear from Daghni Rajasingam a consultant obstetrician from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Clinical psychologist Jessamy Hibberd on her book, The Imposter Cure and listener, Cla...
Women's sport, Muslim women ex-offenders, Introverts, Sustainable fashion.
July 19, 2019 11:02 - 45 minutes - 42 MBHow best can we harness the huge amount of interest created by recent big sporting moments to inspire more women and girls to take up sport? Jenni is joined by Dame Katherine Grainger who is Britain’s most decorated female Olympic athlete of all time and Chair of UK Sport. Ali Oliver is the current CEO of Youth Sport Trust and has worked in education and sports development for 20 years and Iqra Ismail a 19-year-old football player and the Founder of NUR (‘Never Underestimate Resilience’) Wome...
Young composer Alexia Sloane: commissioned to write a piece for this year’s BBC Proms
July 18, 2019 11:12 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBAhead of the world premiere of ’Earthward’ at the Proms, young composer Alexia Sloane talks to Jenni about the upcoming performance and the causes that inspire the music. David Trimble, a leading figure in Northern Irish politics and joint Nobel Peace Prize Winner, now sits in the House of Lords. Last Wednesday it came as a surprise when he stood up in the House - during a debate about Northern Ireland - to say that his eldest daughter got married to her girlfriend, even though, in the past...
The Squad, NI Abortion, Jobs
July 17, 2019 12:24 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBWe'll be taking a closer look at The Squad: the Congresswomen at the centre of Twitter comments made by President Trump. Who are Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar? Why are these four politicians of colour causing such a stir, not just with Republicans but also in their own Democratic Party? Professor of Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, Wendy Smooth and journalist for USA Today and Washington Post and a former House Committee Republican Counsel, Sophia N...
Netball World Cup
July 16, 2019 11:48 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBLive from Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena for the Netball World Cup, we're joined by BBC Sport's Hazel Irvine, former player Sara Bayman and Commonwealth gold winning England Netball captain Ama Agbeze to discuss the tournament so far, predictions for the rest of the week and prospects for the growing popularity of the game. We'll also be talking to CEO of Scotland Netball, Claire Nelson. What does it take to organize a World Cup? We’ll be talking to the Event Director, Lindsay Impett. We're also...
Black women are five times more likely to die in pregnancy, birth or postpartum than white women. Why?
July 15, 2019 09:46 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBBlack women in Britain are now five times more likely to die during pregnancy, birth or postpartum than white women. This is according to the latest study from MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK). And the risk has been increasing year on year. On today’s Woman’s Hour we concentrate on these disturbing statistics – released late last year, but receiving very little attention. We discuss why this could be happening with Elsie G...
Cash Carraway, Parental leave policies, Girl code
July 13, 2019 16:03 - 56 minutes - 52 MBCash Carraway tells us about her life as a working class woman and mother living in poverty today. We discuss the importance of parental leave policy transparency and why only 23 FTSE 100 companies make their maternity and parental leave policies available to the public with Jo Swinson the Liberal Democrat MP, Mairead Niger the chief Human Resources Officer for one of the 23, Diageo and Deborah Hargreaves the founder of the think tank, the High Pay Centre. The novelist and writer Sohaila Ab...
Summer wardrobe essentials, Actor Jill Halfpenny, Author Cash Carraway
July 12, 2019 12:36 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBThe dress historian Amber Butchart has been finding out about the history of some of the summer wardrobe staples we all buy or dig out every year - today, sunglasses. Jill Halfpenny on her new role in the TV drama Dark Money. She plays Sam, the mother of up-and-coming young actor Isaac who accepts a pay-off to keep quiet about the abuse he suffered at the hands of a predatory Hollywood VIP. Cash Carraway recounts her experience of temporary housing, refuges, violence, loneliness, forced se...
Vanessa Redgrave; And one woman's anorexia recovery
July 10, 2019 10:39 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBOlivier, Tony and Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave on her new stage play, Vienna 1934–Munich 1938 – a production which she has written, devised, and performs in, and which intimately explores her family’s personal history amidst the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe. We hear about the play and her political family history that inspired it. Our listener, Sarah tells us about being in recovery from a lifetime of anorexia and disordered eating. Lebanese songwriter Tania Saleh and Palestini...
The Girl Code, Chinese Women in Detention, Sohaila Abdulali
July 09, 2019 10:40 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBThe Girl Code: what is it and what does it include? How about "not going out with your friend's ex"? We find out with Moya Lothian-McLean and Ellen Scott. A UK refugee charity says Chinese women who’ve been traumatised because of human trafficking are being harmed even more by being put in detention centres. The charity called Women For Refugee Women says they should be housed in safe accommodation and given support rather than being sent to Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre in Bedfordshire. Las...
Phone-In: School Transitions
July 08, 2019 11:21 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBToday’s we’re looking at an important milestone in a child’s life: when they move up from primary to secondary school. Can you remember how it felt? Do you have a child who is in year 6, leaving primary school or a child who is just completing their first year of secondary school. Is your Year 6 child excited and ready to go? How do you feel about them going to “big” school? Do you think your child will manage? What, if anything, are you doing to prepare them? We want to hear from you....
Weekend Woman's Hour: O'Hooley and Tidow's song Gentleman Jack, Women's centres, Job sharing
July 06, 2019 16:16 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBO’Hooley and Tidow the English Folk duo from Yorkshire talk to us about their track Gentleman Jack and perform Beryl. We discuss how some women’s centre are being used to facilitate community payback, and how this is affecting vulnerable women with Dr Kate Paradine the CEO of Women in Prison, Nicola Harding who has a PHD in Community Punishment and is a Criminology researcher at Lancaster University and from Sharna Kennedy from the Women’s Centre Tomorrow’s Women Wirral. The Scottish Americ...
The women in line to lead the EU
July 05, 2019 11:04 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBTwo women have been picked for top European Union positions for the first time. In a surprise choice, Germany’s defence minister Ursula von der Leyen has been nominated to head the European Commission. And France’s Christine Lagarde will be the head of the European Central Bank. Sophie Pedder, The Economist’s Paris Bureau Chief, and Deborah Cole, AFP’s Berlin Correspondent, tell us more about these women and the controversy surrounding their nominations. Writer Joanna Kavenna talks about her...
O'Hooley & Tidow and Gentleman Jack
July 04, 2019 11:48 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBA new report by the Children’s Commissioner for England estimates that there are 2.3 million children in England growing up with a vulnerable family background and half of these children receive patchy or no support at all. What needs to change to improve the lives of vulnerable children and have children fallen down the political agenda? Jenni speaks to Rachel Dickinson, President of the Association for Directors of Children’s Services, Alka Dass, a mother fighting cuts to children’s servi...
Parenting: Parents' evenings
July 03, 2019 10:49 - 10 minutes - 9.31 MBYou’re ready for that nerve wracking event in every parent’s life – the school parents’ evening. You’ve done your best to look neat and tidy when your son says, ‘Mum, you’re not going in that jacket are you?’ It seems there is no fashion critic so brutal as a child – especially if Mum is going to be witnessed by their peers and teachers. We sent Tamsin Smith to meet some women and their children to find out why it matters so much.
Julie Heldman, Cannabis, Parents' evenings, Women's centres
July 03, 2019 10:41 - 42 minutes - 39 MBNew research from the University of York shows that the number of women dependent on cannabis has been underestimated and that there is significant gender bias in the way cannabis dependence is assessed and counted meaning that women may not be getting the help they need. Jenni speaks to Ian Hamilton, senior lecturer in addiction and mental health in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York. Julie Heldman is a former American tennis player who won 22 women’s tournaments. She r...
Stonewall 50 years on: lesbian visibility then and now, Thea Musgrave
July 02, 2019 11:42 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBIt's 50 years since the Stonewall riots, a defining moment in the history of the gay rights movement. We ask how visible lesbians were in those early days and how or whether this has changed as rights have progressed and the movement is now ever more inclusive. Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave is one of the most respected composers of opera and classical music. At 91 she's still working and is soon to have the world premiere of her trumpet concerto at the Cheltenham Music Festival....
England Women into the World Cup Semi-Finals
July 01, 2019 11:48 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBEngland women’s football team are through to the semi-finals of the World Cup. Ahead of the game on Tuesday evening we discuss their chances of winning the competition and the blossoming global love for the women’s game with Sunday Times sports journalist, Rebecca Myers and Patricia Gregory, who worked for BBC Sport and was one of the founders of the Women's Football Association. TUC research found that more than 52% of women – and nearly seven out of ten LGBT people – have experienced sexua...