Julia Bradbury and breast cancer, Profile of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Charlie Webster on sexual abuse and safeguarding laws
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It took three separate assessments before it was confirmed that TV presenter Julia Bradbury had breast cancer. It’s a disease that will affect 1 in 8 women, so why does it sometimes go unnoticed? And what can you do if you suspect something might be wrong? Julia and breast surgeon Liz O'Riordan join Emma to discuss.
As Germany’s long serving Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to stand down later this month we look at her life and legacy and ask what’s she done for women? Her biographer Margaret Heckel and the journalist Stefanie Bolzen from Die Welt join Emma Barnett to discuss the woman who has been at the heart of European and global Politics for the last twenty years through the tumultuous years of the financial crisis, Brexit and the Covid 19 pandemic.
Broadcaster and journalist Charlie Webster was 12 when she joined an all-girls elite running group in Sheffield. Running became her passion and it was at the track where she met some of her best friends. But it was also where Charlie was abused for years by her sports coach. At the time, she didn’t speak out about what her coach did to her, but after she left the group she discovered her coach had been arrested and convicted, and sent to prison for 10 years. Now Charlie has made a documentary, Nowhere To Run: Abused By Our Coach. She joins Emma to discuss the documentary and her campaign to improve safeguarding laws in sport.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
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| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:42.8 | Monday morning again which means school for girls and boys in this country but not in |
| 0:47.6 | Afghanistan where secondary schools have reopened for boys but not for girls and also female government workers in Kabul have |
| 0:55.7 | been told to stay at home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man. |
| 1:00.3 | A reality we shall keep you across. Closer to home in terms of politics in this country, |
| 1:06.0 | yesterday morning, Sir Ed Davy, the leader of the Lib Dems during the party's annual political conference, |
| 1:11.0 | was asked by my colleague Andrew Mar about his |
| 1:14.1 | party's policy on transgender rights. He specifically asked him what is wrong |
| 1:18.6 | with the phrase woman colon adult human female? Andrew asked her David colon, adult, human, female. |
| 1:23.9 | Andrew asked Davey three times whether he agreed with the phrase, |
| 1:27.5 | and his response was that the phrase doesn't really encapsulate the debate, |
| 1:31.9 | saying, a trans woman is a woman and a |
| 1:34.9 | trans man is a man and that is the issue we are fighting on. You can hear part of |
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