S1 Jane Couch: ‘Keep going, keep going, just keep going’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

BBC

Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Former boxer Jane Couch talks to Elis and John about how she battled to become the first ever licensed female boxer in Britain and the challenges she faced in the process.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know I also know that comedy is really
0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
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0:44.8	BBC Five Live.
0:46.7	How Do You C. James and John Robbins.
0:50.3	Hello and welcome to How Do You Cope with Ellis and John? Ellis to how do you cope with Ellis and John.
0:54.0	Ellis, how are you doing?
0:55.0	Very well.
0:57.0	I'm absolutely bold over by Jane Couch,
1:01.0	our guest for today.
1:02.0	Yeah, she guest for today.
1:02.6	Yeah, she was absolutely fantastic.
1:05.4	If you read her book the final round, her autobiography,
1:11.0	I mean, she was the first legal female boxer in this country she had to take the British
1:16.4	border boxing control to court to be allowed to fight in this country and to defend her title
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