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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson is the double World and double Commonwealth Games heptathon champion. This year she won the Olympic silver medal in Paris, her first ever Olympic medal. Katarina joins Anita Rani to talk about her new book, Unbroken, in which she opens up about the pressures of representing Great Britain as a 19 year old at the London 2012 Olympics, her complex relationship with her mentor-turned-rival Jessica Ennis-Hill, and the relentless resilience and determination she has shown in coming back from career-threatening injuries.
BBC analysis suggests that the rate at which primary school pupils are being suspended from state schools in England has more than doubled in a decade. Permanent exclusion rates of primary-age pupils have also gone up, by almost 70% in the same period. Campaigners say children excluded from school at a young age experience long-term impacts. It's worth also stating that nearly 90% of those permanently excluded over the past five years also had special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The government has acknowledged the situation is at "crisis point", and says it is determined to "drive up standards" in schools. Anita spoke to Lydia, whose son Eddie has been suspended from school 14 times this year, and Vanessa Longley, chief executive of the charity Chance UK, a charity which supports primary-aged children.
The Iraqi Parliament is currently considering an amendment to personal status law that in effect could remove protections for women and lower the legal age of marriage to nine. There could also be changes to a women's right to divorce, child custody and inheritance. Joining Anita to discuss these proposals are Caroline Hawley, the BBCs Diplomatic correspondent, and Sarah Sanbar, Iraqi researcher for Human Rights Watch.
A new Netflix film tells the story of the invention of IVF, and the woman whose contribution to this world-changing discovery has been largely forgotten, embryologist Jean Purdy. Award-winning actress Thomasin McKenzie talks to Anita about portraying Jean, and her two decades of acting, despite only being 24 years old.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt
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0:00.0 | You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one. |
0:06.5 | I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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0:43.6 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:48.7 | Good morning, welcome to the programme. |
0:50.6 | We will be hearing from a superhuman today, Olympian Katerina Johnson Thompson. |
0:55.7 | Her very honest memoir Unbroken is out today. She'll be joining me to tell us what it takes to reach |
1:01.1 | the highs of medals and victories and the lows of injury. Now, if I was to say the name, |
1:06.1 | Jean Purdy, would you know who I was talking about? Well, she's arguably responsible indirectly |
1:10.8 | for the birth of at least 12 million babies. |
1:13.7 | She was the British nurse who was part of the team who developed IVF technology. |
1:18.0 | A new film called Joy telling her story is coming out on Netflix, |
1:21.4 | and I'll be joined by the actor Thomason McKenzie, who is playing Jean. |
1:25.6 | Also, the Iraqi Parliament is currently considering lowering the |
1:29.3 | legal age of marriage to nine. We'll be finding out what is being discussed and why. And the number |
1:36.9 | of primary school children who are being suspended from state schools in England has more than |
1:41.5 | doubled in the last 10 years. That's according to research |
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