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🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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The BBC has found that five women who were exploited by so-called grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time. One woman says she was raped repeatedly in a marked police car, and threatened with being handed back to the gang if she didn't comply. The BBC's Ed Thomas brings us the story and Clare McDonnell hears from Professor Alexis Jay who is the author of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse and Zoë Billingham, former His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary. New mums are often inundated with advice, whether that's from their own mums or well meaning women in their lives. Increasingly though, given the sheer amount of our lives that takes place on social media the advice can come straight through our phones. It's led to what the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is calling 'advice overwhelm'. They say two thirds of new mums surveyed felt being inundated with advice added to the pressures of motherhood. It also found a third of new parents feel it's 'self-indulgent' to seek therapy and support. Clare is joined by Georgina Sturmer from BACP and Emma Gould, a mum of three who has experience of this. Julie is a new play about Julie Livingstone, a 14-year-old girl who died after being struck by a plastic bullet fired from an Army Saracen in May 1981 in Belfast, at the height of the hunger strike crisis. It is written and performed by her niece, award-winning actress Charlotte McCurry, who wasn't born when the tragedy happened but has grown up with Julie's legacy. Charlotte joins Clare. With the women's Euro's over, talk has turned to what next for the women's game in this country. One club which often gets mentioned when looking at alternative ways of running a football club is Lewes FC in East Sussex. It gained national attention back in 2017 when it became the first club in the world to pay its men and women equally. It hasn't been smooth sailing and there are questions even now about its financial viability, but one of those who championed its move to gender equality is Karen Dobres. She's even written a book about it – Pitch Invasion, my story as a feminist on a Football Club Board. Karen joins Clare in the studio. Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Emma Pearce
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sing Sing and I'm Simon Jack. And Good Bad Billionaire is back. It's the podcast |
0:06.2 | exploring the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's richest people, but this time there's |
0:10.6 | a twist. On Good Bad Dead billionaire, we are looking back on the lives of some titans of |
0:15.6 | US industry. Like the first ever billionaire, John D. Rockefeller. The founder of the Ford |
0:20.3 | Motor Company, Henry Ford. |
0:21.9 | And the First Lady of Wall Street, Hetty Green. |
0:24.3 | And Simon and I are asking you if they were good, bad or just another billionaire. |
0:28.4 | Good bad billionaire. |
0:29.5 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:33.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:37.1 | Hello, this is Claire MacDonald, and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:41.8 | Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. |
0:44.5 | Motherhood. Everyone is an expert. |
0:47.3 | Whether you're a new mum or you've been in the trenches for a while. |
0:50.6 | And especially in this social media age, there is a never-ending stream of advice on how you could be doing it better. |
0:57.6 | Well, now, a survey of new mums has revealed two-thirds of them felt inundated with advice, and it just piled on more pressure. |
1:05.5 | We're going to hear from the report's author today and also a mum of three under fives on how she found meaningful support. |
1:13.7 | 14-year-old Julie Livingston went out to buy tights with her sister in Belfast in May 1981 and she |
1:21.0 | never came back. She died after being struck by a plastic bullet fired from an army Saracem. |
1:27.6 | Now her niece, Charlotte McCurry, who wasn't born when the tragedy happened, |
1:31.4 | has written a play about her aunt in which she stars. |
1:34.9 | It's about to premiere in Belfast and Charlotte will join us live. |
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