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Woman's Hour

Plaid Cymru & culture of harassment, Egg freezing, Taylor Swift, Lisa Selby & Blue Bag Life, Wrexham and DJ Katie Owen

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Plaid Cymru have apologised after a damning review found a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny in the party. The party had "failed to implement a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment" and that women had been "especially" let down. Dan Davies, the BBC Wales Political Correspondent explains. Taylor Swift is rumoured to have a new boyfriend and its all over the papers. She is the highest-paid female entertainer in the world, earning $92 million in 2022 following the success of her 10th studio album “Midnights". But why are we so obsessed with her - and in particular, her personal life? Charlotte Gunn, editor of the female-focused music publication, The Forty Five explains.

The journalist Kohinoor Sahota tells us why as a single British Asian woman she wanted to share her story about her plans to freeze her eggs next month. Rachel Cutting, an emrbryologist in the NHS for 25 years and now Director of Compliance and Information for the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA) discusses the egg freezing process, and the success rate.

Lisa Selby is both the subject and the co-director of a new film called Blue Bag Life. In it Lisa examines her relationships with her mother Helen, who abandoned her at 10 months old, and her partner Elliot. Both were heroin addicts, and in the same year Helen dies and Elliot relapses and ends up in prison. An artist and academic, Lisa shot thousands of videos recording her conversations and thoughts during this difficult period in her life, which have been woven together in this feature-length documentary, Lisa joins Anita, along with one of her co-directors Rebecca Lloyd-Evans. Blue Bag Life is on BBC Four on Tuesday 9 May at 10pm, and then on the iPlayer.

Wrexham players and Hollywood club owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney celebrated the men's team promotion to the English Football League as well as the women's team which won promotion to the Adram Premier league. As thousands lined the streets, Katie Owen was invited to DJ on the open top bus victory parade through the town. She explains what it was like to be part of the celebrations.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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

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to Woman's Hour, we've made it to another Friday. Now on Tuesday, Rexam had the party of their

0:17.6

lives when the men's football team was promoted to the English Football League and the women's

0:21.8

team also had huge success. All part of the Rexam AFC fairy tale that began when they were

0:27.0

bought by legit Hollywood mega stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McEleni and I'm going to be speaking

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to DJ Katie Owen who found herself playing the set of her life on top of a victory parade bus.

0:38.0

Well, as we have a bank holiday weekend of celebration ahead of us, we thought we'd talk

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parties this morning. I want to hear your stories about the best celebration of your life. Did

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you find yourself caught up in a street parade for your own town, city, village, sports team?

0:56.1

Were you at the 2012 opening ceremony? Were you at the party, street party, and Naples that's just

1:01.3

been taking place? Was it a wedding you'll never forget? The birthday party of dreams? Did you get

1:07.1

swept away with a local festival while on holiday in some exotic faraway destination? And now it's

1:12.7

like a magical dream. Tell me all about it. That one joyful celebration. When you close your eyes and

1:18.4

think about it, it brings back the sweetest of memories and you can't help but smile. What was it?

1:24.4

What were you up to? I want to hear all about it and don't leave out the juicy details. You can

1:29.3

get into touch with me in the usual way. 84844 is the number to text. You can email me via our

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website. You can also drop me a WhatsApp message or indeed a WhatsApp note if you want to talk to me,

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03700, 1004444. Be nice to hear your voices. Also on the programme today we'll be discussing

1:45.9

egg freezing and the paper's recent obsession with Taylor Swift's love life and why she's such a

1:52.4

huge cultural icon. And also one of the most moving documentaries I've seen in a long time,

1:57.7

Blue Bag Life about one woman trying to understand her relationship with her estranged

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