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Woman's Hour

Actor Samantha Womack, The Lionesses win, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, Dear Daughter podcast, Jane Roe's daughter, The Home Edit

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The actor Samantha Womack on her new role as the White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. As the Lionesses reach the final of the Euros on Sunday let's not forget that the FA, the Football Assocation, banned the women's game for fifty years. Jacqui Oatley, the first female Match of the Day commentator, reflects on the women's game. Women with learning disabilities die on average 26 years younger than the general population. In her first interview since taking up the role of chair of trustees at the learning disability charity Mencap, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn tells Emma about why the life, and death, of her sister Diana Fairbairn, who had learning disabilities and cerebral palsy, has inspired her new campaigning role to improve support for people with learning disabilities. Namulanta Kombo on her award winning podcast 'Dear Daughter', which started with her idea of writing letters to her young daughter with advice for life. Norma McCorvey is the real person behind the Roe vs Wade court case of 1972. Her eldest daughter Melissa Mills discusses what her mum would have made of the court case she was so central to being overturned. Friends and business partners Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin have become stars of pandemic feel-good TV with their Netflix show Get Organised with The Home Edit. They go into someone’s home and transform a cluttered space into something beautiful and functional. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.1

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.

0:12.9

On the programme today, the daughter of Norma McAulvey,

0:17.0

also known as Jane Rowe of the Roe V Wade Abortion ruling.

0:21.9

A new report shows that women with learning disabilities have a life expectancy

0:26.2

that is 26 years less than women in the general population.

0:30.6

We take a trip to Narnia with actor Samantha Womack,

0:34.1

talking about her latest role in the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

0:38.2

Then we speak to the queens of Get Organised with the home edit on Netflix,

0:42.8

Cleoshera and Joanna Telfin, who will help us all declutter our spaces.

0:48.1

And a brilliant podcast called Dear Daughter that's just one podcast of the year

0:52.4

where people write letters to their daughters,

0:54.3

giving them advice, everything from the sublime, the serious and the wonderfully ridiculous.

0:59.4

So make yourself a cupper or something stronger,

1:02.1

and sit back and enjoy the next hour.

1:04.7

Now, England are through to the Euro's final tomorrow at Wembley,

1:08.4

where they'll play Germany, as if you didn't know.

1:10.9

After their semi-final 4-0 win against Sweden cannot wait,

1:15.3

but let's never forget that the FA, the Football Association,

1:19.0

banned the women's game for 50 years.

1:21.7

The morning after the semi-final victory, Emma reflected on the women's game

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