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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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England goalkeeper and Lionesses legend Hannah Hampton joins Nuala McGovern on Woman's Hour fresh from winning the UEFA European Women's Championship. Born with a serious eye condition, doctors told her she should never play football. She came into the recent Euros with questions over her ability to fill the gloves of recently retired Mary Earps. To add to that, she revealed her grandfather had died just days before the biggest tournament of her life began earlier this summer. Despite this, Hannah had an extraordinary tournament, particularly in those agonising penalty shootouts. She joins Nuala McGovern to chat all about it. In June this year in Pakistan, Bano Bibi, a mother of five, and Ehsanullah Samalani, a father of three, were accused of having an affair and were shot - on the orders of a tribal leader, according to police. The event caused outrage, not just because it was another so-called ‘honour killing’, but because the authorities only took action after a video of the shootings went viral, more than six weeks later. Nuala is joined by Azadeh Moshiri, Pakistan Correspondent for BBC News, and Sheema Kermani, a woman's rights activist, dancer and theatre director who has been working with women in rural and marginalised communities for 50 years. Writer and director Celine Song’s semi-autobiographical debut Past Lives earned her two Oscar nominations and a host of other accolades when it was released in 2023. She talks to Nuala about her second film, Materialists, a romantic dramedy starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, and how it was inspired by her own time working as a matchmaker for high-net-worth individuals in New York. Construction employs around 1.4 million people in Great Britain, according to the Office for National Statistics, but only around 15% of those people are women. And they don’t always have a positive experience, with 30% having reported sexual assault at work and 64% saying men were paid more for the same role. So, as the industry faces a recruitment crisis, how could it evolve to become a safer and fairer place to work and encourage more women into construction? Nuala explores the problems and the opportunities with Faye Allen, author of Building Women, and Dr Carol Massay of Unity for Construction, who’ve both worked in the industry for more than 30 years. And we remember long-serving Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter, renowned for turning the children's show into a television institution, who has died at the age of 92.
Presented by: Nuala McGovern Produced by: Sarah Jane Griffiths
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.6 | Hello, this is Newell O'Moghren, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:10.4 | Good morning, a brand new week on Woman's Hour and a great show lined up for you. |
0:15.6 | In a moment, England's goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, on taking on the mantle of the number one shirt, on winning the euros, |
0:22.9 | and on how she kept her cool during those intense penalty shootouts. Well, Hannah credits her mum |
0:29.6 | and her nan with her resilience. And for those of you feeling resilient this morning, |
0:35.5 | who do you think instilled it in you? |
0:38.5 | What did you see them do that then helped you to embody it? |
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0:51.9 | The number is 0-3-700-100-444. |
0:58.1 | Dating is a game that we play to find love. |
1:02.4 | So, says Celine Song, director of materialists. |
1:06.7 | She told me that in our interview. |
1:08.9 | We chat about her new film. |
1:10.6 | It's based on her time as a matchmaker. |
1:13.6 | And she also says that money is the drug of our time. Well, you may have also seen Celine's debut smash that was past lives. |
1:21.1 | Wonderful story. It is based in part on her life story. She writes what she knows. We're going to talk about it all. |
1:28.6 | Also, the construction industry needs more workers, |
1:31.7 | but women are not signing up to get involved. |
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