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Woman's Hour

Alex Scott, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Molly Russell inquest

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Alex Scott is one of the most high profile names in women’s sport. The former Lioness started playing football for Arsenal when she was just eight years old, later, as a semi-professional player for the club she washed the men's team kit to earn extra money on the side. Alex went on to play for England 140 times and now presents on the BBC and Sky Sports. She has recently released her memoir entitled ‘How (Not) to Be Strong’ and joins Emma in the studio. Last Friday after two weeks of the inquest into the death of Molly Russell in 2017 coroner Andrew Walker concluded Molly died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression and the negative effects of online content. He said the images of self-harm and suicide she viewed "shouldn't have been available for a child to see" and that social media content contributed "more than minimally" to her death. Her father, Ian has called for urgent changes to make children safer online. Emma Barnett speaks to Merry Varney, the family’s lawyer. It's just five weeks until the midterm elections in the United States. Emma is joined by the Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the first woman in US history to be elected both as a Governor and as a Senator for New Hampshire, a small but decisive State. In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics. Emma speaks to Philippa Langley. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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

0:10.0

And welcome to a busy programme, as always.

0:12.7

We have the amateur historian whose research helped locate the remains of a king in a car

0:17.2

park, the star footballer confronting painful home truths, and the Democratic Senator who's

0:22.5

flown to the UK to give attention to the so-called special political relationship.

0:27.5

All to come, but I wanted to ask you about working on single sex teams.

0:33.2

When have you worked only with women, either at work or away from the job?

0:37.1

How was it?

0:38.1

Did it work well?

0:39.3

Any downsides, you know I always like you to share?

0:42.0

Experiences also of single sex male teams are welcome too.

0:45.4

But this has come to mind this morning with this wonderful story about four British women

0:49.3

who are swapping their day jobs, heading off to Antarctica to run the world's most southerly

0:54.1

post office, known as the Penguin Post Office for five months.

0:58.8

It's got its name because besides one returning team member, there are no other permanent

1:02.7

residents, other than a colony of 1,500 penguins.

1:06.8

You may be thinking why do these penguins need a post office?

1:09.5

Well, it's because there are 80,000 postcards delivered by hand from tourists arriving on

1:16.1

cruise ships.

1:17.4

This post office has been closed over the pandemic.

1:19.9

It's reopening for the first time in two years.

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