Fatherhood, Laura Mulvey, Women's football stadiums

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As part of the Radio 4 Fatherhood season, Clare McDonnell and her guests discuss the role of fatherhood in men’s lives. Darren Harriott is a 37-year-old comedian and presenter of Father Figuring. Darren has now lived longer than his dad, who took his own life while in prison, and he is questioning would he be a good dad? What even makes a good dad? They are joined by Dr Robin Hadley who has written a book looking at why men, like himself, do not become fathers.

In 2016 Natalie Queiroz was stabbed 24 times by her partner while she was eight months pregnant. He is currently nine years into an 18 year sentence for attempted murder and attempted child destruction. Natalie and her unborn daughter nearly died. Earlier this year she learned that changes by the Ministry of Justice meant that her attacker could be transferred to an open prison many years earlier than she had expected. She's been campaigning against this but has recently learned his application for a transfer has been approved. Clare hears from Natalie and Ellie Butt from Refuge.

Laura Mulvey, filmmaker and pioneering feminist theorist, first coined the term ‘the male gaze’. The British Film Institute’s Fellowship is a pretty starry list – Bette Davis, Martin Scorsese, Judi Dench, Tilda Swinton, Christopher Nolan, Tom Cruise....to name a few and now Laura has been added to that prestigious list.

Tomorrow Women’s Super League Football will officially unveil Design Guidelines for the Delivery of Elite Women’s Stadiums in England – a world first framework supporting clubs, local authorities, and architects in building or upgrading venues specifically for their women’s teams. They say the rapid growth of the women’s game has demonstrated that football venues, historically built and designed for male players and fans, need to be better equipped to cater towards the specific needs of female athletes and supporters. Hannah Buckley, Head of Infrastructure, Safety and Sustainability for WSL football and Suzy Wrack, women’s football correspondent for the Guardian discuss.

Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Kirsty Starkey

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Hello, I'm Kimberly Wilson. I'm a psychologist, and in my new podcast, Complex, I'll be your guide
0:14.4	through all the information and misinformation that's out there about mental health.
0:19.0	I'm joined by expert guests covering topics from people
0:22.5	pleasing to perfectionism, burnout to empathy, to find tangible advice so we can understand ourselves
0:28.9	a little better. Complex with me, Kimberly Wilson. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, this is Claire
0:37.2	Macdonnell and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:40.4	Thank you very much. Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. Here's a question.
0:44.4	Has the relationship you had with your father affected how you parent yourself?
0:49.9	What if you never knew your dad and you have absolutely no parenting roadmap on that count.
0:55.8	Well, it's a question posed by comic Darren Harriet.
0:58.7	In his brilliant new podcast series on BBC Sounds, it's called Father Figgering.
1:04.0	Darren's dad died in jail when he was just 11 years old.
1:07.7	And now he's asking what lessons he can learn from the past, so he doesn't repeat them in the future when he becomes a dad. Let me know today if that's been a gap in your life and how you overcame it. You can text the program. The number is 84844. Text will be charged at your standard message rate. On social media, we are at BBC Women's Hour.
1:30.1	You can email us through our website,
1:32.1	or you can send a WhatsApp message or voice note
1:34.5	using the number 0,700-144.
1:39.4	As women's football continues to grow apace,
1:42.1	this week, Women's Super League,
1:43.8	will officially unveil design guidelines for the delivery of women's football stadiums in England.
1:50.9	Now, if you were building from scratch, how would you make football stadiums a better space geared to women players and fans?
1:57.7	And what about reconfiguring stadiums that are already built?
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