Angélique Kidjo, Taxing the child free, Recognition for first England footie team

Woman's Hour

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4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Angélique Kidjo is a 5 time Grammy Award winner from Benin who has been called "Africa's premier diva". Later this month she will be headlining the WOMAD world music and dance festival. She’ll be talking on Woman’s Hour about why she sings in five different languages and how music can be a greater force for change than politics. A recent article in the Sunday Times asked whether we should tax the childfree. It got a lot of attention and Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University joins Emma to discuss, as does Daisy Buchanan, an author and podcast host who has chosen to be child free. The first international England Women’s football match was in November 1972, England vs Scotland. Neither team were awarded with ‘caps’ which are awarded to players whenever they represent their country in an international match. Nicola Sturgeon awarded the 1972 Scottish Women’s team with their long awaited caps before the Women’s World Cup final last year. The 1972 England Women’s team are still waiting to receive theirs. 50 years on from that first match, we speak to Woman’s Hour listener and a 1972 goalkeeper for the England Women’s football team, Sue Whyatt and the honorary secretary of the Women’s Football Association, Patricia Gregory who co-organised the first international women’s England v Scotland match in November 1972. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Women's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.7	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:12.9	A hot day for us all in most places, temperature wise and that heat is definitely felt in the
0:17.9	political arena as a search for the new Prime Minister continues in earnest, with more and
0:22.6	more people throwing their hats into the ring.
0:25.5	That race includes four women so far, the foreign secretary and women and equality's Minister
0:30.4	Liz Truss.
0:31.8	Her former equality's minister, Kemi Badenock, who resigned last week, trade minister
0:36.4	Penny Mordent and the attorney general, Suella Bravaman, as well as seven men, including
0:41.9	the former chancellor, Shesunak and the former health secretary, Sadja Javid, whose resignations
0:46.7	within minutes of each other kicked off what began a week, the week that was in politics,
0:52.2	if I can put it like that.
0:54.0	It is conceivable then, we will have another female Prime Minister, our third woman leader
0:59.7	and the third from the Conservative Party, but you may not be backing a woman if you are
1:04.2	indeed backing anyone in this race to replace Boris Johnson.
1:08.0	Who is your money on and why and what do they need to say or do or prioritise to get your
1:13.5	vote as it were?
1:14.5	You're not having a vote, but if you were, what would it be?
1:18.2	You can text women's hour and eight four eight four four, text will be charged your
1:21.1	standard message rate on social media, where at BBC Women's Hour as I always say, if
1:25.4	you prefer email, many of you do, you get to send longer messages.
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