Rapist police officer, Women in Iran, Extreme cleans, Golfer Georgia Hall
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A BBC investigation has revealed that a police officer, Alan Greer, who took his own life in May was a violent rapist who carried out a spate of sexual attacks and attempted murders of women over at least 14 years. To find out more about women's confidence in the police, Anita Rani speaks to former Met Detective Superintendent Shabnam Chaudhri and Janaya Walker, interim director of the End Violence Against Women coalition.
As the US and Iran continue exchanging fire, Anita talks to global affairs journalist Tara Kangarlou and researcher at King's College London Dr Ahou Koutchesfahani to ask how life for women in the country has changed since the war.
Georgia Hall won the Women’s Open back in 2018 - one of the four British women to have ever won a golf major championship. She has since gone on to compete around the world, winning countless titles and cups and was awarded an MBE in 2019. Georgia recently returned to professional golf after giving birth in February, and now sets her sights on another win at the AIG Women’s Open, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, right here in the UK.
What started as documenting the transformation of her own mouldy rental flat has turned into an award-winning mission to help some of the most vulnerable people. Content creator Bea Elton, known as Clean with Bea, has gained millions of followers by documenting her free extreme cleans in homes affected by poor mental health and financial hardship. She restores properties that could otherwise cost thousands of pounds to clean and discusses the link between our living environments and wellbeing. Anita talks to Bea about why her videos have become such a social media phenomenon and the lives she's helping to change.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Jenner, I'm the host of You're Dead to Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. |
| 0:12.6 | And we are back for a 12th series. |
| 0:14.5 | Everyone in that film is wearing their own pants. |
| 0:17.8 | We're joined by comedians like Kyle Smith Bino and Desiree Birch. |
| 0:21.2 | Can't see how this would go wrong. |
| 0:23.4 | We'll meet many medieval saints. Motivational speaker saint with like a sort of Madonna |
| 0:29.1 | head mic on. We're doing a history of underwear. Plus there's loads more. You're dead to me. |
| 0:34.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:41.6 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:44.0 | She has millions of followers across social media, |
| 0:47.9 | watching her transform extremely unkempt homes. |
| 0:51.3 | B Elton will be here to tell us how she's built an empire from cleaning the |
| 0:55.8 | homes of severe hoarders. The 22 woman life freedom protests transformed daily life for many |
| 1:04.2 | Iranian women, despite a crackdown by the government. But what now for the women of Iran, while |
| 1:09.5 | their country is at war? We'll be discussing this. |
| 1:12.5 | And one of Britain's most successful female golfers, Georgia Hall, will be telling us all about getting back to the profession after having a baby earlier this year and about her passion for golf more generally. |
| 1:24.8 | And this morning I was wondering, how many of you listening play golf? What attracted you to the sport? What's the pleasure you get from it? Where do you play? Is there a ritual around it? Maybe you plan your holidays around golfing. Do you have a gang of girlfriends who all play together? We're just fascinated if you play golf. me particularly. Let me know all about it. |
| 1:44.6 | You can get in touch in the usual way. |
| 1:46.3 | You can actually contact us on most smart speakers now by saying Alexa Ask BBC Sounds to send a comment. |
| 1:53.7 | You can also text the program on 84844. |
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