Supreme Court hears case on definition of a woman, Barbara Taylor Bradford's life

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Judges at the Supreme Court are today considering how women are defined in law in a landmark case brought by Scottish campaigners. It will address what “sex” means legally, and will set out exactly how the law is meant to treat trans people. BBC Scotland Policital Correspondent, Phil Sim, joins Nuala McGovern to explain more.

Song writing partnership Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear are making history by becoming the youngest and first female songwriting duo to compose for a Disney feature film in the highly anticipated Moana 2. The Grammy Award-winning pair join Nuala live in the studio to discuss what the songs mean to them, and their career so far.

The film Mediha tells the story of a teenage Yazidi girl who was captured by the Islamic State group in the 2014 genocide against the Yazidi people and kept for four years as a sex slave. To help her process her trauma, she has filmed her life and her journey to try and find her missing family members. Mediha herself joins Nuala alongside the director and producer of the film, Hasan Oswald.

Following the death of bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, Nuala talks to her publisher, Lynne Drew, and to television presenter and author Fern Britton who was a fan and a friend of Barbara’s. They’ll discuss Barbara’s extraordinary rise from typist to multi-millionaire author and the enduring appeal of her work, including her 1979 smash hit A Woman of Substance.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lottie Garton

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.5	I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.2	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of podcasts on all sorts of subjects,
0:16.0	relationships, identity, comedy, even one that mixes poetry, music and inner city life.
0:22.4	So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature,
0:28.3	and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience, and maybe that's you.
0:33.6	So if you like this podcast, check out some others on BBC Sounds.
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0:43.2	Hello, I'm Neula McGovern and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:47.8	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:54.4	Hello and welcome.
0:56.3	We'll go to the Supreme Court in a moment as it gets ready to hear a case on the definition of a woman.
1:01.8	Also today, figures out show that the number of single UK women having fertility treatment has trebled over a decade.
1:09.2	So the number of women without a partner who had
1:11.8	in vitro fertilisation or donor insemination treatment in 2022 was a 243% increase from that figure back in
1:21.9	2012. This is all according to the human fertilisation and embryology authority, the HFEA.
1:28.2	I would love to hear from you if you made the decision to go it alone in this way.
1:33.7	And whether that was recently or a long time ago, I'd like to know your motivation.
1:38.7	And also, how has it been for you?
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