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Woman's Hour

Victims' Right to Review, Dr Grace Spence Green, Mums in coaching, New play Elephant

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Solicitor General Lucy Rigby KC MP joins Anita Rani to discuss piloting changes to the Victims’ Right to Review in cases of rape and serious sexual assault. Anita is also joined by survivor and campaigner Jade Blue McCrossen-Nethercott, who has been calling for change.

New research by UK Coaching reveals that mums could be key to reversing the sharp decline in the number of female volunteer sports coaches, down 10 percent in just two years; Over a third of mums who aren’t currently involved in their child’s sports clubs want to give coaching a go, but are put off by a lack of confidence and knowledge of individual sports. Joining Anita to discuss this is former England defender Anita Asante and Alison Walters, a volunteer coach at Faversham Strike Force FC.

Dr Grace Spence Green’s spine was broken when a man fell on her in a shopping centre. At that time, Grace was part-way through her medical degree, and found herself going from being a trainee doctor learning about how to work with patients, to being a patient herself with serious injuries. Ten months after her injury, Grace continued her degree and later qualified as a doctor who is also a wheelchair user. Grace tells Anita about her experiences, as described in her new book, To Exist As I Am.

Singer, songwriter and actress Anoushka Lucas’s award-winning debut play, Elephant, looks at her experiences of growing up mixed race and navigating the music industry as a young woman through the materials that make up a piano. She joins Anita to talk about the play, and to perform one of the songs from the show.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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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. It just couldn't survive.

0:30.3

Toast. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:34.9

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Hello, I'm Anita Rani, and, Radio Podcasts.

0:39.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:44.0

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

0:50.6

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:53.3

You may have seen the video of the Duchess of Sussex

0:55.5

dancing away in her hospital room to try and induce the labour of her second child, Lilibet.

1:01.1

Megan posted it to mark the fourth birthday of her and the Duke of Sussex's daughter. Well,

1:06.8

this morning, I'd like to hear what tricks and tips you used to try and bring about the birth of your babies.

1:13.2

Did you go for a dance?

1:14.6

Did you go for a walk, eat a certain type of food, listen to heavy metal, caveating that not all of these things are proven to work, but take me back to the time you were waiting to go into labour.

1:26.2

Get in touch with the programme in the usual way.

1:28.1

The text number is 84844.

1:30.7

You can also email the programme by going to our website

1:33.2

and the WhatsApp number is 0300-100-444.

1:37.3

And if you'd like to follow us on social media,

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