Arlene Foster, Kate Wilson, Kelly Critcher
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Arlene Foster, First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the DUP, has stood down. She was the first woman and the youngest person to hold both jobs. In her resignation announcement she said that her election as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party broke a glass ceiling, and she also spoke about the trolling she's received. We discuss what her legacy will be.
Kate Wilson has been giving evidence at The Royal Courts of Justice because she's suing The Metropolitan Police and the National Police Chiefs Council. She's taking legal action because she fell in love with a man who wasn't who he said he was. He was an undercover policeman who called himself Mark Stone. He was really Mark Kennedy whose job was to infiltrate environmental protest groups. Kate will have to wait until later in the year to get a result but she explains why she's taken the action.
We talk to Kelly Critcher, who's a palliative care nurse. She works at the first hospital in the UK to declare a critical incident of Covid 19. She's written a book called A Matter of Life and Death: courage, compassion and the fight against the corona virus on the front-line.
And do you share the bath water? TV property developer, Sarah Beeny, does. She gets in the bath after her husband and four sons. Sarah tells us why.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.2 | Good morning. |
| 0:11.2 | Have you lost a job or been forced to leave a role that you loved? |
| 0:15.0 | One of the most powerful women in politics, Arlene Foster, |
| 0:17.8 | First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, |
| 0:21.7 | fell on her sword yesterday. |
| 0:23.4 | After more than 20 DUP Northern Ireland assembly members and four MPs signed a letter |
| 0:28.5 | voicing no confidence in her leadership. |
| 0:31.1 | She was the first woman and youngest person to hold both jobs and has done so for the past five years. |
| 0:37.0 | We'll talk more about her legacy and the impact of her work shortly, |
| 0:40.8 | but in her resignation speech, Arlene Foster said it had been the privilege of her life |
| 0:45.3 | to serve the people of Northern Ireland. |
| 0:47.5 | It was clear it was a role she adored and threw herself into. |
| 0:51.3 | When, if you, then, lost a job or been forced out of a role that you adored, |
| 0:54.7 | gave everything to. |
| 0:56.3 | Arlene Foster in that speech did also make particular mention of the misogyny she's received. |
| 1:00.9 | Perhaps your gender played a role in losing a job. |
| 1:03.8 | What was it? When was it? How did you pick yourself up? |
| 1:07.0 | Jobs so often define us, rightly or wrongly, |
| 1:10.0 | and maybe losing yours was actually the making of you. |
| 1:12.9 | Tell us 84844 text will be judged at your standard message rate, |
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