Historic abortion law change in France and Pornography series
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Two years after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, lawmakers in France yesterday made history by enshrining this right in their country's constitution - it was a global first. We talk to Stephanie Hennette-Vauchez about the change.
Singer-songwriter Sarah Jane Morris performs live.
We look at what's behind the cuts to Birmingham City Council's budget - equal pay or a new IT system? With Heather Jameson, editor of the Municipal Journal and Dr James Brackley, lecturer in accounting at Sheffield University.
In the next part of our series about porn, Ena Miller talks to ‘Sam’ who, from an early age, measured herself by the women she saw in pornography.
And Imelda May talks about her new documentary Lilly and Lolly: The Forgotten Yeats Sisters, on Sky Arts. Elizabeth and Susan Yeats (also known as Lolly and Lilly) founded a women-only arts and crafts guild to promote women’s economic and cultural independence. Overshadowed by their famous brothers, W.B Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats…until now.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Reporter: Ena Miller Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood
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| 0:40.0 | Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Women's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Just to say that for |
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| 0:55.0 | Today I can promise you some powerful music, |
| 0:58.0 | the story of two overlooked women who financially supported their much more famous brothers and why some believe |
| 1:04.5 | that America ought to look to France when it comes to enshrining women's |
| 1:08.1 | rights into a constitution. I say this on so-called Super Tuesday, the biggest day so far in the 2024 race for |
| 1:15.1 | the White House as voters in 15 states and one US territory choose candidates |
| 1:19.7 | for the next president but first coming closer to home on the political front, |
| 1:24.9 | people living in Birmingham are facing a 21% rise in their council tax bill over the next two years. |
| 1:31.1 | As Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe |
| 1:34.4 | is also set to vote on a wave of cuts to local services including bin |
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