Ghislaine Maxwell sentencing, Minister for Justice in Ireland, Dame Deborah James, Trans sport, music education

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping former financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls. We speak to Equality Lawyer Georgina Calvert Lee about her statement in court where she said she empathised with the victims, and hoped her prison sentence would allow them "peace and finality". The killing of Ashling Murphy in Tullamore, County Offaly in Ireland in January 2022 sparked a huge public outcry, and has been seen as a watershed moment in how the country tackles violence against women and girls. Ireland has launched its third national Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based violence strategy. Emma speaks to the Minister for Justice in Ireland, Helen McEntee about what's in it. Dame Deborah James has died aged 40 from bowel cancer. The cancer campaigner, blogger, broadcaster and former teacher had been receiving end-of-life care at home. She was given a damehood in May in recognition of her fundraising. Emma speaks to Steve Bland, husband of Rachael Bland, GP Dr Ellie Cannon, and Julia Bradbury who has spoken about her journey with breast cancer. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has told UK sporting bodies that "elite and competitive women's sport must be reserved for people born of the female sex". We get the details from our reporter, Jane Dougall. The National Plan for Music Education was published by the UK government last Saturday. Called The Power of Music to Change Lives, their ambition is for every pupil to have at least one hour of high quality music education a week. We speak to Veronica Wadley, Baroness Fleet, the chair of the advisory panel that published the report, and YolanDa Brown who contributed to it as a MOBO award-winning saxophonist and Chair of Youth Music. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Chloe Bennett

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.8	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:12.5	Dame Debra James, Water Woman, Water Campainer,
0:16.9	what a friend to us all, as well as a devoted mummy, wife, daughter, sister and teacher
0:22.5	in the truest sense of the word.
0:24.5	Her family announced her death last night.
0:27.0	She had lived for five years with bowel cancer and had become known for her honest yet joyful
0:32.8	sharing of her experiences of being unwell and how treatment was affecting her.
0:37.8	She shared that story and those details with her audience, largely on social media where
0:42.5	she was known as bowel babe and also via her BBC podcast You Me and The Big C and also
0:48.8	through her newspaper column.
0:50.8	Over the last few weeks, that community who had grown to know her, to love her, to
0:55.2	care for her right across the UK rallied and helped Debra raise nearly £7 million for
1:01.8	research.
1:02.8	And you Debra a little, mainly through work.
1:05.7	And in my old job at BBC Five Live, where I worked with one of her podcast co-hosts,
1:10.0	The Wonderful Woman and Presents a Rachel Blande, who died in 2018, almost two years after
1:15.2	being diagnosed with breast cancer and like Debra, she was 40 years old.
1:20.7	And what I know about these women is that being women and talking like women do openly
1:26.2	without blushes, generously sharing their emotions, their fears, their hopes, their concerns
1:31.8	and also what makes them laugh, was a big part of who Debra and Rachel were as people.
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