Ultrarunner Stephanie Case, Alice Figueiredo, Women's Super League, Cycle tracking apps

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Canadian born human rights lawyer, Stephanie Case, went viral online when she finished first place in the women’s section of the Snowdonia ultra-trail 100km race despite giving birth six months ago and breastfeeding her daughter at aid stations. Stephanie tells Nuala McGovern about her first race as a mother and first competition in three years and why she chose to continue to do the things she loves after becoming a mum.

In 2015, 22-year-old Alice Figueiredo took her own life whilst being treated at Goodmayes Hospital, east London. Over the course of her 5 month stay at the mental health unit she attempted suicide on 18 separate occasions. Following a seven-month trial at the Old Bailey, a jury found that not enough was done by the North East London Foundation NHS Trust, or ward manager Benjamin Aninakwa, to prevent Alice from killing herself. Alice’s mum, Jane Figueiredo, has spent the last decade fighting to get the case to court. She discusses the impact it has had on her family.

This week it was announced by Deloitte that the total revenues of Women’s Super League (WSL) football clubs grew by 34 per cent to £65m in the 2023-24 season and are tipped to hit £100m for the first time next year. But while the four biggest-earning clubs generated most of the WSL revenue and the average WSL team’s revenue increased there remains a yawning gap between the top and bottom teams. At the same time average attendances in the Women's Super League dropped by 10% last season compared with the previous campaign. To unpick this mixed picture we hear from Dr Christina Philippou, Associate Professor of Sports Finance at the University of Portsmouth.

A new Cambridge University report published today calls on public health bodies like the NHS to offer apps that rival private FemTech services to prevent policing of reproductive choices. They are calling for better governance of the industry to protect users of cycle tracking apps (CTAs) when their data can be collected and sold at scale. Dr Stefanie Felsberger is lead author of The High Stakes of Tracking Menstruation.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sarah Crawley

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0:00.0	Why do some big successful brands go bust?
0:05.0	Toast is back for a new series, taking a look at the decisions that often left investors burnt.
0:11.0	I'm Sean Farrington, a BBC business journalist. I'll be hearing about the hype.
0:15.0	They're going to do the deal that makes them the most money at that point of time.
0:19.0	And I'm picking what went wrong, talking to owners and employees to ask, what can we learn?
0:25.4	It was being undercut by similar rivals.
0:28.5	It just couldn't survive.
0:30.3	Toast. Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.2	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:39.6	Hello, this is Newellamogarine, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.
0:44.4	It is indeed. Hello, and welcome to the programme.
0:46.9	Well, this morning, we'll meet the woman who won the Snowdonia Ultra Trail.
0:51.2	That is, 100 kilometres, so some endurance feet.
0:55.9	But what about doing it six months after having a baby and while breastfeeding? Stephanie Case coming up. Also staying with sport,
1:01.6	a couple of stories from the Women's Super League that we want to delve into. Revenues are
1:05.5	hitting record heights, but attendance figures are dropping for the top tier of women's club football in England.
1:12.3	So what is going on? We'll try and find out.
1:14.9	Plus, period tracking apps.
1:16.4	Many of us use them from various companies.
1:18.7	But a new report calls them a goldmine for consumer profiling.
1:23.5	A Cambridge researcher who is urging public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives will join us.
1:31.6	Now, part of the research suggested that women using the apps could face health insurance discrimination,
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