Missing children, Women's minister Penny Mordaunt, Waitress the musical
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds - around 180,000 a year. What is it like for the families who are never reunited? How does it feel to be a mother with a missing son or daughter? Jane speaks to three women about their own experiences.
Jane speaks to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Penny Mordaunt, about a new government campaign to end period poverty globally by 2030.
Waitress is the first ever West End musical that has been written, composed, directed and choreographed by women. Jane meets its star Katharine McPhee - best known for Smash and American Idol - and the woman behind the songs and music multi Grammy Award nominee singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles.
We discuss the lives of women who carried out anthropological fieldwork around the world in the early twentieth century. Six are being featured in a new exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
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| 0:34.4 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and thank you, you've downloaded the Women's ad |
| 0:37.4 | podcast from Monday the 4th of March 2019. |
| 0:41.3 | On the podcast today, you'll hear Penny Mordent, Secretary of State for International Development |
| 0:45.8 | and the Minister for Women and Equality. She talks about Brexit, about period poverty and about abortion or lack of access to it to be more specific in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:57.0 | We'll also discuss the new West End musical Waitress, which is a musical about women, largely for women you might argue, and with loads of women in prominent positions behind the scenes as well. |
| 1:08.0 | And a really interesting listen, three mothers who have missing adult children share their experiences of what must be a |
| 1:16.3 | truly horrific thing to go through as an individual or as a family. |
| 1:20.9 | Let's start then with Penny Mordent. She has talked of as a potential candidate for a future |
| 1:25.6 | leader of the Conservative Party and this morning she was making a speech at Church House in Westminster |
| 1:31.6 | on a new government initiative to attempt to end period poverty. |
| 1:35.9 | I spoke to her there first thing this morning. |
| 1:38.7 | I think if we're going to end period poverty for good for everyone for which this is an issue so that's not just |
| 1:44.5 | people in schools and colleges it affects people throughout their lives. I think we |
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