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Woman's Hour

Poet Joelle Taylor, Fantasy Football and Yusra Mardini and Sally El Hosaini

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Poet Joelle Taylor won the Polari Prize last night and the TS Eliot Prize in January this year. Over a long career as a writer for the page and the stage she has explored butch lesbian counterculture and told the stories of the women in underground communities fighting for the right to be themselves. She joins Emma Barnett to explain how joining the literary establishment fits with a lifetime of protest. As Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Dominic Raab stands in for Prime Minister's Questions today, despite accusations of bullying, we look at how MPs and the macho culture of Westminster can be called to account without an ethics advisor, since Lord Geidt resigned earlier this year. Emma speaks to Pippa Crerar political editor of The Guardian and Christine Jardine, Liberal Democrat MP Edinburgh West, spokesperson for Cabinet Office, Women and Equalities and Scotland, who yesterday tabled a bill asking for parliament to appoint an ethics advisor if the conservative party fails to do so. We speak to director Sally El Hosaini about her new film The Swimmers which is based on the true story two Syrian sisters who fled Damascus in a dinghy boat in order to escape war and build a new life for themselves. One of those sisters, Yusra Mardini, will also be speaking to Emma Barnett about how she feels about her story being turned into a film. Fantasy Football is a hugely popular online game which requires building a make believe team of real world players who compete in the Premier League. But the growth of women managers has exceeded that of men in the last five years, rising by 112%. With the Premier League taking a break for the first ever winter World Cup, we explore the challenges early female participants of Fantasy Football have faced and what their participation in the game, and a growing interest in football, could have on the sport.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.4

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

0:10.0

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.3

Today feels a bit like a waiting game as the UK and its allies try to establish the facts

0:17.5

about a missile which landed in eastern Poland near the Ukrainian border killing two people,

0:23.2

following a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine.

0:26.4

The Prime Minister, as she soon speaking at a press conference within the last hour in

0:30.1

Bali, where most of the G20 leaders are meeting, has said, quote, all of us want to get to

0:35.5

the bottom of what happened.

0:38.0

And closer to home, speculation is mounting about what tomorrow's budget will mean for

0:42.4

personal finances across the country.

0:45.6

But in order to govern effectively and with stability, which has been lacking of late because

0:49.9

we've had three Prime Ministers in as many months, there has to be faith in our leaders'

0:54.4

judgement and conduct.

0:56.6

Calls are growing for Rishi Sunak to appoint an ethics adviser, after bullying allegations

1:01.0

against his deputy Prime Minister Dominic Rab, which Mr Rab has denied, who is standing

1:05.8

in for Mr Sunak today at Prime Minister's questions.

1:08.3

We'll get into this with one woman trying to change things and the accusations of macho

1:13.4

politics shortly.

1:14.8

Also on today's programme, the refugee Syrian Olympic swimmer who ended up swimming part

1:20.2

of the way to her freedom is here with the acclaimed filmmaker who's brought her story to the

1:25.0

screen.

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