Dame Sharon White - Chair of John Lewis, Beth Mead, Caroline and Rose Quentin

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dame Sharon White is the first ever female chair of John Lewis Partnership and was recently named the UK’s most influential black person in the 2023 Powerlist. She became the chair of the John Lewis Partnership in January 2020 just as the Covid pandemic hit and is responsible for turning around the fortunes of John Lewis and Waitrose in what is widely seen as the most challenging time in the company’s history. She joins Emma. The accolades just keep coming for Beth Mead, she won the Golden Boot - meaning she scored the most goals - and Player of the Tournament at the Euro's earlier this year, and last month she was runner-up in the Ballon d'Or which decides the best player in the world. Beth, who plays for Arsenal in the Women's Super League, has a new book out called Lioness: My Journey To Glory and joins Emma in the studio. Men Behaving Badly star Caroline Quentin is joined by her daughter Rose for a new touring production of the George Bernard Shaw play, Mrs Warren’s Profession. They play Mrs Warren and her daughter Vivie, who suffers a crisis of conscience when she discovers that her comfortable life has been funded by her mother’s work in the sex industry. Caroline and Rose join Emma to discuss their relationship and their first experience of working together.

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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.
0:09.9	We have a real treat for you today in the form of Beth Mead, one of England's football
0:14.1	line-esses and the top scorer and player of the Oros, which England's women won so gloriously
0:19.5	this summer.
0:20.5	But what do you do after you and your talented, casually brought her massive trophy home and
0:25.8	command and an audience of more than 17 million? Let's find out, shall we? Beth will be joining
0:30.5	me in the studio a little later on. But before we get to sporting prowess, let's really
0:35.9	get to it, shall we? With this question, how long could you cope working in a job with
0:42.1	your mum? Or your daughter, if you have one, if you had to take a job with your mother?
0:48.0	How many minutes before things turned? What would be the spark that flew the initial
0:53.9	one? What would be the flashpoint between you? You don't have to give your real name to
0:58.3	give some of these insights. Perhaps you've actually tried it and it didn't go very well.
1:02.8	Or maybe it's been wonderful. The thought of it fills you with joy, hope, expectation,
1:09.6	tell me. What would you think about taking a job with your mum? Because of course the
1:14.8	mother and daughter relationship provides a rich seam of stories and drama and probably
1:20.2	because she's listening this morning. I'm not at liberty to go there about some of my
1:23.8	best tales, but needless to say, as an only child, it's been a very loving and intense
1:28.7	relationship with my mum, although having said my mum will be listening, who knows?
1:33.0	Because she rang my husband in a panic yesterday, wondering if I was okay as I wasn't presenting
1:37.7	woman's art, except I was, and she had her radio tuned to the wrong station by accident.
1:44.8	Mothers and daughters, perhaps you have a ringside seat as a spectator to one of these passionate
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