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Woman's Hour

Baroness Cumberlege, Euro 2020 men's football final, Equality in opera

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Baroness Julia Cumberlege, who led a critical review into how the health service has treated female patients, says she is angry and frustrated that not enough progress has been made. A year ago her report looked into two drugs and a medical device which caused women or their babies harm. It made a list of recommendations to support victims and prevent future, avoidable damage. The four UK governments are still considering the recommendations. Baroness Cumberlege joins Emma.

It’s been four weeks of competition that concluded last night when England lost to Italy in the final. Despite the ultimate outcome, the Euro 2020 men's football competition really seemed to capture the imagination of many, and was a much needed tonic after a year and a half of the Covid pandemic ruling our lives. Emma speaks to a panel of female football experts about what all this momentum could mean for the future of the women's game. Dr Martha Newson is a cognitive anthropologist at the Universities of Kent and Oxford, and has researched the behaviour of football fans around the world; Faye White was Captain of the England’s women’s team who got to the finals of the 2009 Euros; Kelly Simmons is director of the Women’s Professional game at the FA and Seema Jaswal has been one of ITV's main hosts of the Euros.

The Engender Festival begins today and celebrates the work of women and gender minorities while seeking equality across all sectors of opera, both on and backstage. Creative Producer for The Royal Opera and founder of the Engender Festival Kate Wyatt talks about changing the gender imbalance in opera and music theatre. Emma is also joined by Artistic Director of Pegasus Opera Alison Buchanan who conceived Mami Wata, a concert which brings together a range of diverse composers.

Last Friday the police officer Wayne Couzens pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to murdering Sarah Everard, the 33 year old marketing executive who went missing on her walk home in March of this year. He has yet to be sentenced. It seems there were clues that Wayne Couzens was a risk. There have been flashing allegations: one alleged to have happened just a few days before he abducted Sarah. The Daily Mail wrote that he was once reported for driving naked from the waist down, and colleagues nicknamed him "the rapist". Emma speaks to Emily Spurrell, Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside, who believes officers should be trained to spot signs of misogyny within their own ranks.

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0:00.0

Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

0:04.6

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

0:08.4

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experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

0:20.4

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0:24.6

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0:29.7

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0:36.0

BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:41.0

Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's Ah from BBC Radio 4.

0:46.0

Looking back on when we first man, I cannot escape and I cannot forget.

0:53.9

Southgate, you're the one.

0:56.2

You still turn me on.

0:58.8

Football's coming home again.

1:02.4

Except it didn't.

1:04.0

Remember last week?

1:05.0

That wonderful moment when Atomic Kitten came on the program right at the end and Natasha

1:08.9

Hamilton did us an impromptu rendition of their song which has become an anthem for this year's euros.

1:15.2

We had hope then.

1:16.2

Even 12 hours ago, England fans still had hope, but then it was not to be as England's

1:20.6

bid to end their 55 year wait for a major trophy concluded in the

1:25.0

familiar agony of defeat and a penalty shootout as Italy claimed the Euro 2020

1:29.9

crown at Wembley. As the quote goes it it's not the despair, I can take the despair, it's

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