Jazz musician Zoe Rahman, IVF regulation, County Lines, Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Musician and composer, Zoe Rahman has won a MOBO, a British Jazz Award, and this week Zoe was awarded the ‘Impact Award’ at the 2021 Ivors Composer Awards.
Julia Chain the chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, made a plea for the 1990 Act governing fertility clinics and practice in this country to be updated. She argues that after 30 years, the science and culture around IVF has changed so much, and that the law needs to catch up.
This week Ministers revealed a 10-year drugs strategy which includes £300m for combating more than 2,000 county lines gangs. Sahira Irshad and Jen Jones are part of Mums United, a group of local mothers fighting against rising gang violence in Sheffield.
23-year-old Vee Kativhu was told Oxford university wasn't for people like her - she proved her teachers wrong by graduating recently from there with a degree in in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. She's now studying International Education Policy at Harvard. Her popular Youtube channel gives out studying tips and she has a new book out - Empowered: Live Your Life with Passion and Purpose.
Last week the government set out how it will improve life for women in the armed forces, in response to the Women in the Armed Forces report which came out in July. It found that service-women who were victims of bullying, harassment, discrimination and serious sexual assault were being ‘denied justice’ by a ‘woefully inadequate’ military complaints process. We heard from the Secretary of State for Defence, MP Ben Wallace.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:53.6 | On the show today, the two women fighting |
| 0:56.5 | county line drugs gangs in their neighborhood, |
| 0:59.3 | the Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace |
| 1:01.8 | on the government's plans to improve life for women in |
| 1:04.2 | the armed forces and how to make revising easier. If Beyoncé was having a concert |
| 1:09.2 | and she just put out music the night before you're not going to listen to that song once and then get on stage and sing along. |
| 1:14.6 | You won't know the words. |
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| 1:19.7 | all the different versions until you know it for yourself and that's the same with revision. |
| 1:24.0 | Study tips from the inspiring 23 year old educational activist V catavoo plus music. |
| 1:30.0 | We have the multi award winning jazz musician Zoe Raman on the grand piano in the |
| 1:36.0 | woman's hour studio. But first a few days ago Julia Chain the chair of the |
| 1:40.4 | Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority made a plea for the 1990 Act governing |
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