Gloria Allred and Rebecca Solnit on Epstein, New head of MI6 Blaise Metreweli
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Gloria Allred is one of the best known women’s rights lawyers in the US. She tells Nuala McGovern what has happened to victims' voices amongst the continuous revelations in the press from the Epstein Files. We then hear from bestselling author and leading feminist thinker Rebecca Solnit, who says the released documents are reminders of a culture that decades of feminism have started to dismantle.
Today Blaise Metreweli becomes the the first woman to lead the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, in its 116-year history. Nuala speaks to two women who’ve met her, Helen Worrell from the Financial Times and Telegraph Senior Commissioning Editor Lebby Eyres, who has rowed competitively against Blaise for years.
The Taliban has imposed an internet shutdown across Afghanistan, to last indefinitely. Mahjooba Nowrouzi from the BBC Afghan service tells Nuala how women and students who relied on online learning have been affected.
Mimi Nation-Dixon's one-woman play Sit or Kneel transfers to The Other Palace in London this October. Mimi plays Margot, a young female vicar trying to lead a rural parish while grappling with dating, grief, identity and questioning her faith. Mimi joins Nuala to explain how her own theology dissertation on the Vicar of Dibley inspired the piece.
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