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Woman's Hour

BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2021; Ghislaine Maxwell court case; Adoption breakdown;Anorexia & relationships; Nicola Adams

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Vivianne Miedema of the Netherlands and Arsenal has been crowned the winner of BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2021. The annual award from the BBC World Service is voted for by football fans from around the world. She is the all-time leading scorer in the FA WSL (women’s super league) and has scored more goals at the international level for the Netherlands than any other player, across both the women's and men's teams. This month, November 2021 she became the first player in the history of the WSL to score against every team they have faced, after scoring against Manchester United.

The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to go on trial in New York City today on sex trafficking and other charges - in a highly anticipated trial. She is expected to challenge claims she groomed underage girls for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse. He died in prison in 2019. She has been in a US jail since her arrest last year. Laura Pullman is the Content Editor at the Sunday Times and is the former New York Correspondent and Stephen Wright is Associate Editor at the Daily Mail who joins the programme from outside the court in New York.

Nicola Adams OBE is officially Great Britain’s most successful female boxer of all time. She won gold at the London Olympics in 2012 and repeated the achievement in Rio in 2016. She is the only female boxer in the history of the sport to have won every major title available to her; Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth. So, it’s not a surprise that Amazon Prime Video have made a documentary about her. Lioness: The Nicola Adams Story explores her difficult upbringing and her battles with sexism, racism and homophobia to get in the ring. We find out how a girl from a council estate in Leeds became a #Lioness.

In the first part of a new series 'Under Pressure' Zoe and James explain how 'Ed' which is the name they gave Zoe's eating disorder changed their lives. How is a relationship impacted when life stuff happens?

We don’t often hear about adoptions that break down, but last week former BBC Scotland health correspondent Eleanor Bradford wrote about her "heart-breaking" decision to return her adopted son to the care system. She said she was unable to cope with her son’s “extremely challenging” behaviour and that she was “furious about the lack of support for adoptive parents” in Scotland. Eleanor Bradford joins Emma to share her experience along with the chief executive of Adoption UK, Sue Armstrong Brown.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Stephen Wright Interviewed Guest: Laura Pullman Interviewed Guest: Vivianne Miedema Interviewed Guest: Nicola Adams Interviewed Guest: Eleanor Bradford Interviewed Guest: Sue Armstrong Brown

Transcript

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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

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable

0:14.3

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

0:20.4

makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

0:24.6

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

0:29.7

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:41.0

Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. chilly for most people I mean I'm cold the whole year round but I did see a man in a

0:54.1

t-shirt this morning so not everyone feeling the cold but in terms of what's

0:57.6

going on you've just been hearing in the news with regards to the latest strain of

1:01.5

COVID-19 the government seems to be placing its bets on boosting

1:05.6

the booster vaccine programme to tackle the latest strain of COVID-19 with the UK's

1:09.7

vaccine advisory body set to announce later if it will back an expansion of the COVID booster scheme.

1:16.2

And minded to think back to our conversation we had together a few months ago

1:20.3

about your methods of trying to convince those in your life to have the jab.

1:24.0

So many of you got in touch telling me various people, daughters, sons, brothers, other halves,

1:30.0

just won't. And what you were trying to do to deal with that. How are those conversations going? I thought I'd check back in.

1:37.0

Not least because I was reading the story in the papers, I'm sure some of you will have seen this, of Glyn Steele, a vegan man who refused the COVID jab because it was tested on animals, who has died of the virus.

1:48.0

He faced a two-week battle in intensive care and begged nurses for the jab as he fought for his life, but it was too late to save him.

1:55.7

His last words to his wife Emma were, I have never felt so ill, I wish I'd had the vaccine.

2:01.9

Emma who is double jab, says she's now facing an empty future

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