Kemi Badenoch becomes Tory leader, Athlete Julien Alfred, Author Eliza Clark

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Kemi Badenoch is the first woman of colour to lead a major political party in the UK, after being elected as leader of the Conservative Party at the weekend. What do we know about her as a woman, and as a politician? What does this mean for women in the Tory party? Clare McDonnell speaks to Katy Balls, political editor of the Spectator, Ella Robertson McKay, former head of Conservative Young Women, and Tory peer Baroness Kate Fall.

The Women's 100 metre Olympic champion Julien Alfred joins Clare in the studio. Her gold medal in Paris was the first time St Lucia had won an Olympic medal. She discusses what it took to become a champion and also having a national day named after her.

The author Eliza Clark is publishing a new collection of short stories: She’s Always Hungry. She joins Clare to talk about why she wanted to cover topics from matriarchal societies to body image, and how she thinks female authors deserve more respect.

Natalie Hewit spent two months in Antarctica directing and producing on the documentary film Endurance, about Ernest Shackleton’s expedition. It was a labour of love, and features restored footage and AI-recreated voices of the original crew in 1914, as well as chronicling the discovery in 2022 of Shackleton’s ship, 3000 metres down in the icy waters of the Weddell Sea.

Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Lottie Garton

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0:47.7	Hello and welcome to a brand new week on Woman's Hour,
0:50.8	and it could end up being a pretty momentous one for women in politics. America could
0:56.7	get its first ever female president and here in the UK in the last week we've already ticked off a few
1:03.6	first the first female chancellor delivering a budget and the first black woman to lead a major
1:10.3	political party in the UK. Kemi Badernock
1:13.3	is now the new leader of the Conservative Party. In an interview yesterday with the BBC, she played
1:19.5	that down. But does it feel like a pivotal moment for women in UK politics to you? Should these
1:26.8	firsts for women be celebrated?
1:29.0	Or do you think, as Kemi Beidonuk says, we shouldn't focus on them?
1:32.3	Is it an exciting new dawn ushering in meaningful change or just distant changes in high office that won't impact your life?
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