Rumer, Kerry Godliman, Afghan women's cricket

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The singer/songwriter Rumer is a MOBO award winner and double Brit Award nominee. Her new album In Session is out today celebrating the 15th anniversary of her platinum debut album Seasons Of My Soul. The success that followed that album affected her mental health. She stepped away from the industry and relocated to the US. Now back in the UK she has returned to the record that has shaped so much of her life both professionally and personally. Rumer joins Anita Rani to talk about her life and music and to perform live in the studio.

Afghanistan’s women’s cricket team have played their first match since being exiled three years ago. Cricket commentator Alison Mitchell and Firoza Amiri from the squad discuss the game and their fight for official ICC recognition.

Are people better served by sexual assault referral centres than by self- swabbing in cases of alleged rape? Tana Adkin KC says we should be careful. Katie White is the co-founder of Enough, who have developed these kits and currently running a pilot project in Bristol. They've given away 7000 in just 12 weeks. The two of them are in the Woman's Hour studio to discuss.

Actor and comedian Kerry Godliman, is best known for her portrayal of Lisa Johnson, the deceased wife of Ricky Gervais’ character Tony in the hit Netflix series After Life. She now returns to the stage with her new stand-up show Bandwidth – on being a middle age woman – everything from parenting teenagers, to considering dealing HRT on the black market to losing her mum bag. And we look back at the life of Marianne Faithfull hearing her when she was last on Woman's Hour in 2011.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey

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0:49.8	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
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1:00.2	Singer-songwriter, Ruma, had huge success with her debut album 15 years ago and then needed to take time out to look after herself.
1:10.0	Well, now she's back and lucky us will be performing a
1:12.6	song live from her new album. The Afghan women's cricket team had to flee to Australia. They
1:18.7	played a match last night. They might be back at the wicket, but they're not recognised by the
1:23.6	ICC as a team. I'll be finding out why and speaking to one of the team.
1:32.6	Rape statistics in the UK are shocking. As we know, because we discussed the lack of prosecutions, convictions, even women coming forward to report them often on the programme.
1:37.1	Well, one woman has attempted to do something about it by creating a self-swab kit. We'll
1:42.2	be discussing whether it will help or not.
1:45.1	And actor and comedian Kerry Godleman will be telling us about her new talk called
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