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Woman's Hour

Louise Candlish, Domestic abuse, Samara Joy, Women and gaming

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The bestselling author Louise Candlish joins Anita Rani to talk about her latest novel - A Neighbour's Guide to Murder - which explores the practice of sex for rent and a trial by social media. Louise reflects on her career and explains why she’s so interested in writing about the homes and streets we live in.

The Government has announced it will spend £53 million on a new programme to tackle domestic violence. Anita discusses the plans with Kyla Kirkpatrick, who works with the charity Safe Lives and is the Director of the Drive Partnership Programme that works with perpetrators, and Ellie Butt, Head of Policy at Refuge.

The American jazz vocal powerhouse Samara Joy has five Grammy awards to her name and is quickly gaining superstar status in the jazz world. She is making her debut at the BBC Proms on Saturday 19 July, where she will be backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, in a special tribute to the Great American Songbook. The Prom will be also be live on Radio 3, on BBC Four and iPlayer. In the next in our Women and Gaming series we look at the wider impact gaming can have on society. Anita talks to the BBC’s Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman, and Emily Mitchell, winner of the BAFTA Young Game Designer award in 2017, and creator of Fractured Minds, an immersive puzzle game which confronts the daily challenges of living with anxiety.

Presented by Anita Rani Produced by Louise Corley

Transcript

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Get closer to the action with live commentary from the world's greatest sporting events on BBC Sounds.

0:06.0

It is all over!

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Bulls are an edge, caught behind.

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Including cricket Super League, Women's Euro's 2025, Wimbledon, Formula One and much more.

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It's all right to the lights and foot to the floor.

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Oh, what's's done it!

0:21.4

Drop shots!

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Winner!

0:23.7

On five sports extra, sports extra two and sports extra three.

0:27.7

Listen, only on BBC Sounds.

0:31.7

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:35.7

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.5

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been

0:45.1

removed for this podcast.

0:47.1

Good morning and welcome to the program.

0:49.8

Samara Joy at only 25 has won five Grammys.

0:53.5

She's a classical jazz singer from a new generation.

0:56.4

She'll be here ahead of her first ever BBC prom,

0:59.5

which will be taking place on Saturday.

1:01.7

We continue looking at women and gaming today,

1:04.9

focusing on how games can help with mental health.

1:07.9

And Louise Candlish will be telling us about her new book, A Neighbors' Guide to Murder.

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