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Woman's Hour

Baroness Jacqui Smith, Global manosphere, Working from bed

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What are the implications for girls and young women of Alan Milburn's review for the Government into rising levels of inactivity among 16 to 24-year-olds? There are currently just under a million young people in this age range dubbed NEETs because they are not in education, employment or training. Anita Rani speaks to former Labour Home Secretary Baroness Smith, now Minister for Skills, as well as Minister for Women and Equalities. A BBC investigation looks at on the global expansion of the manosphere and the social media algorithms which are driving young men towards increasingly extreme views on gender, relationships and masculinity. BBC Global Disinformation reporter Jacqui Wakefield examines the rise of two of the most influential manosphere figures in Latin American and Africa – El Temach in Mexico and, Andrew Kibe in Kenya. She joins Anita to tell her what it was like spending time with these influencers and about the women living with the real-life consequences of their influence. Would you ever consider working from your bed? Perhaps you do, by choice or otherwise? Dermatologist Dr Alexis Granite and The Archers Podcast's Emma Freud are both fans and join Anita.

Jodi Kantor is a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist. In October 2017 she - alongside her colleague Megan Twohey - published a groundbreaking exposé in the New York Times detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations against the former film producer Harvey Weinstein - which galvanised the global MeToo movement. Jodi is back with a new book: How to Start, which is all about how to launch a career in uncertain times.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:07.2

Things just swirling around my head.

0:09.6

Am I really the product of this?

0:12.1

Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.

0:17.0

Little did I know what more was to come.

0:19.5

I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging

0:25.2

out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.

0:28.8

They did know that I was different.

0:31.7

You had kids together.

0:33.0

Yeah.

0:33.5

Then you met.

0:34.3

Then we met.

0:35.2

The Gift.

0:36.1

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:39.4

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

0:44.5

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:47.1

Jodie Cantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who, along with Megan Tuwe, published the groundbreaking expose, detailing decades of

0:56.2

abuse by Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood. Well, now she's turned her attention to helping us get into

1:01.3

not only jobs, but ensure we're fulfilled in our work. She'll be joining me to talk about her book,

1:06.7

How to Start. A new documentary looking into the rise of the manosphere in Kenya and Mexico.

1:12.4

I'll be speaking to Jackie Wakefield, who went to both places to spend time with these influences

1:17.2

and talk to both the men and women affected. And are you working from home this morning,

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