Race Across the World, Women's Prize winners, Ute Lemper, Measles at Glasto

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Last night the winners of this year’s Women’s Prize were announced. The winner for fiction is Yael van der Wouden for her novel The Safekeep and the non-fiction prize by Rachel Clarke for her book The Story of a Heart, which tracks the lifesaving gift of a transplant. Anita Rani discusses the winning books with the Chair of Judges for the Fiction Prize, author Kit de Waal, and Chair of Judges for the Non-Fiction Prize, journalist and author Kavita Puri.

Race Across The World reached its finale on BBC One this week, after a nearly 9,000-mile dash across Asia, from the Great Wall in north eastern China to the southernmost tip of India, via the Himalayan peaks of Nepal. This year’s winner were mother and son team Caroline Bridge and her 21-year-old son Tom. Caroline talks to Anita about the experience.

An entrepreneur and mother was refused entry to a tech event in London because she had brought her eight-month-old baby with her. Anita speaks to the woman in question, Davina Schonle, and the director and producer Jude Kelly about the issue of banning babies from events of this nature.

It's festival season, with Glastonbury starting at the end of June. However it’s not just the music and the atmosphere that festival goers need to be thinking about. The UK Health Security Agency has warned that measles is circulating across the country, with high numbers in the South West and London. Anita is joined by the UK Health Security Agency Deputy Director of Vaccination Programmes, Dr Julie Yates - who is the former public health lead in South West on Glastonbury.

Grammy-nominated Ute Lemper has had a career spanning stage, film and music. She is renowned for her interpretations of Kurt Weill, Brecht and chanson legends like Marlene Dietrich. Ute won the American Theatre World Award and the Laurence Olivier Award for her performance as Chicago’s Velma Kelly both on Broadway and in London's West End, and the Molière Award for her performance as Sally Bowles in Cabaret in Paris. Utel Lemper now has a new album, Pirate Jenny, celebrating the music of legendary composer Kurt Weill. She joins Anita to talk about her passion for his work.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

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0:00.0	Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
0:05.1	My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.
0:08.7	It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,
0:13.5	moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
0:19.1	And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music
0:21.7	means we can tell those stories like no one else.
0:24.5	We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.
0:28.6	So whether you want an insightful take on music right now
0:31.3	or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,
0:36.1	check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:40.2	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:44.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:49.1	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:55.8	Good morning. Live music on the program today from Grammy-nominated Shantas, Uta Lempa.
1:01.5	That was all that jazz from Chicago. Uta won an American Theatre Award and an Olivier Award for playing Velma Kelly.
1:09.1	And she'll be in the studio to tell me about her new album shortly.
1:14.2	And she only went and did it.
1:16.1	Yesterday's guest, Yale Fanda Vauden, won the Women's Prize for Fiction for her brilliant debut novel, The Safe Keep.
1:22.6	And the non-fiction prize was won by Rachel Clark for her book, The Story of Her Heart.
1:27.1	Huge congratulations.
1:28.7	We'll be speaking to the judges shortly. And ahead of Glastonbury, the festival, we will be there.
1:34.6	There is advice and guidance and how to keep safe with a rise in the number of measles cases.
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