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Woman's Hour

All-women team travelling to Ukraine border, Euro 2022, Parenting adult children

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

As part of a charity mission this month an all-women team are travelling from the UK to Ukraine with much needed supplies and plan to return with 28 refugee women and children, and their pets. Two of the women on the trip are Barbara Want and Suzanne Pullin. As a former top civil servant says that No 10 did not tell the truth when it said the PM was unaware of formal complaints about Chris Pincher's behaviour we hear from BBC Correspondent Ione Wells and Dr Helen Mott who helped draw up the independent complaints and grievance scheme at Wesminster in 2018. Half of all children in lone-parent families are now living in poverty according to a new report. We speak to the co-author of the report, Xiaowei Xu, a Senior Research Economist at the IFS, and Victoria Benson, Chief Executive of Gingerbread. Tomorrow the Women’s Euros will begin - England and Northern Ireland are taking part and 2022 looks like it'll be a huge year for the women’s game with matches shown on terrestrial TV, record attendances, greater visibility and awareness. A new exhibition Goal Power! at Brighton Museum celebrates the achievements of the trailblazers in the women's game and Charlotte Petts spoke to some of them. There's no doubt it's challenging being a parent when your children depend upon you for pretty much everything. But what about later on, when they are supposedly independent and all grown up? Surely it gets easier. Not necessarily according to authors of two new books, Celia Dodd and Annette Byford join Emma in the studio. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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

0:09.9

Today we're going to get the latest on the developing situation at Downing Street concerning

0:14.1

the truth and the potential spinning of it.

0:17.0

After a retired civil servant made an unusual intervention this morning, I'll be talking

0:21.8

to the woman who broke the story yesterday that began the unraveling of the Prime Minister's

0:25.5

account of what he knew about his former chief whip and allegations of sexual assault.

0:31.6

And I'll also be talking to the woman who drew up the independent complaints and grievance

0:36.2

scheme at Westminster in 2018 when there are allegations relating to sexual misconduct

0:41.9

in Parliament again.

0:43.7

We'll be hearing her take on the developments today.

0:46.5

We're also going to hear about a new report regarding single mothers and the impact of

0:51.8

rising costs in this country and ahead of tomorrow's women's euros and I know so many

0:56.5

of you are excited about it because so many of your messages yesterday which were just

0:59.8

glorious.

1:01.0

We will have more amazing insight from women's football over the years for you and I

1:05.8

will return to some of those messages I didn't quite get to yesterday.

1:09.9

But my question today for you is about what you have done, built, achieved, created,

1:15.4

put together with an all-female team or crew.

1:19.6

Tell me what comes to mind when I say that to you.

1:22.9

That is because today I will be talking to you two of an all-female team who, of their

1:26.8

own volition, have decided to travel to the Ukraine border with supplies and in a bid

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