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Woman's Hour

Plaque for women priests, Young women coming off the Pill, Electric cars

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday a ceremony took place at Bristol Cathedral to replace a plaque that marked the day women priests were first ordained by the Church of England, in 1994. The original plaque only listed the names of the men who attended the ceremony, and not the 32 women who had made history that day. Almost 30 years later, the plaque finally displays the women’s names. Emma speaks to Reverend Angela Berners-Wilson, the first woman to be ordained by the church, and the Bishop of Bristol, Right Reverend Vivienne Faull, who led the ceremony on Saturday. A pregnant woman who was photographed being carried on a stretcher - following the bombing of a maternity hospital in the southern port of Mariupol in Ukraine last Wednesday - is reported to have died, along with her baby. The attack on the hospital caused outrage around the world. 4000 children have been born in Ukraine since the war began nearly three weeks ago. Emma is joined by Louise Callaghan, Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times. Marked as a breakthrough in female contraception the Pill has been used for over six decades. 28% of women say it remains their preferred form of contraception, followed closely by the male condom. However, more recently on social media some young women are documenting their decisions to come off it. Emma is joined by Dr Jane Dickson, Consultant in sexual and reproductive health care, and former vice president of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, and Lottie Drynan who stopped taking the pill just over a year ago, after being on it for 13 years, and has been documenting her journey on Instagram. We know that women are more environmentally conscious when shopping for the household - but there’s one area where that doesn't seem to be the case - cars. There are now over 600,000 plug-in electric vehicles in the UK, but a new study has found that 20% of women haven’t even considered buying an electric car. We speak to Erin Baker, Editorial Director at AutoTrader about why women are less likely to opt for electric vehicles. It's been deemed a 'victory for women'. A campaign group has won a legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police over the force's handling of a vigil for Sarah Everard. Sarah Everard was murdered by serving Met police officer Wayne Couzens - and the vigil was to be near where she was killed in Clapham in London during Covid lockdown. But when the group got in contact with the police they were told that it would be illegal and could face fines over 10,000 pounds each and possible prosecution. So they cancelled the original plan but a spontaneous vigil and protest took place anyway. Anna Birley, the founder of Reclaim These Streets speaks to Emma.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

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

0:09.8

While it might be a new week, fighting in Ukraine shows no sign of abating.

0:14.0

If anything, the opposite, as the war moved to the frontiers of European Union and NATO

0:19.8

yesterday, when Russia bombed a military base less than 15 miles from the Polish border.

0:25.5

But how are you keeping up to date with it?

0:28.0

Are you listening?

0:28.9

Are you reading?

0:29.9

Are you watching?

0:30.9

Maybe none of those things, perhaps from the beginning or maybe at this point.

0:34.7

But often, it is images which bring particular moments of clarity and engagement during a bombardment.

0:41.0

And one such image was taken last week of a pregnant woman being stretched from her maternity

0:45.6

ward after Russia bombed the maternity and children's hospital where she was meant

0:49.9

to give birth in Marriable.

0:52.1

You may recall it, it was last Wednesday, and the image taken showed a woman lying on a

0:57.6

red and black spotty piece of material, hand below her large stomach with her head on one

1:02.3

side, looking extremely pale.

1:05.2

We don't know her name, but we do know as of this morning, as you've just heard in the

1:09.3

news that she and her child have died.

1:12.7

They did not make it.

1:14.3

In a moment I'll be talking to a correspondent about what she's been seeing and finding

1:18.5

and some of the stories that are cutting through and making this war very real indeed, but

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