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Woman's Hour

Republican women standing for Congress, Rhianna Pratchett, Chrissy Teigen's miscarriage

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We heard about women Democrats standing for Congress last week, and today we discuss Republican women. In 2018 their numbers in the House of Representatives dwindled to just 13, but now a record number are entering the November elections either as incumbents or challengers, so what made the difference and what are their chances of winning? Jane speaks to Olivia Perez-Cubas from Winning for Women, an organisation set up in 2017 to encourage more conservative female candidates, and Sarah Elliott, Chair of Republicans Overseas UK.

Eleven-year-old Emma finds her life turned upside down when her father tells her he wants to become a woman. This is subject of a new Danish film ‘A Perfectly Normal Family’. The fictional story is based on the director Malou Reymann’s own experience. She joins Jane along with her father Helene.

Award-winning video games writer Rhianna Pratchett speaks to Jane about her first book Crystal of Storms which aims to get young girls into the world of fantasy and gaming. Her book is part of Fighting Fantasy, a series of interactive children’s books where the reader takes on the role of the protagonist and chooses their actions by rolling a dice. Rhianna is the first female guest writer of the series.

The model Chrissy Teigen's raw grief at her miscarriage has been very public. Some have been sympathetic; others question whether social media is the place for such things to be shared. Jane discusses with Ruth Bender Atik, national director of the Miscarriage Association.

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Hi, this is Jane Govey and welcome to Womazah Friday, the 2nd of October 2020.

0:41.0

Good morning and it's not the most important thing in the world right now but no I didn't get any cake I came in extra early all gone of course because of the

0:48.2

current situation very few of us could be here yesterday for Jenny's last program if you missed it do listen via BBC

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sounds it was really brilliant some fantastic highlights of her epic career on

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women's house so that's available on BBC Sounds.

1:02.7

The program, of course, very much goes on.

1:04.4

Today we're talking to Riana Pratchett,

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award-winning video games writer,

1:09.0

and the first woman now to write one of the Fighting Fantasy series.

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Rianna with us a little bit later.

1:15.0

We'll look too at Chris E. Tegan's very public miscarriage.

1:19.0

Too much for some people, but we'll be asking whether it will really help to increase understanding.

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