Weekend Woman’s Hour: Dawn French; Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s sentence; Women’s Football
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today if you are a woman you are likely to live into your eighties. But what to do with those extra couple of decades? Dawn French is best known for her comedy and acting and is now an author long listed for the Women’s Prize. She talks about reinvention and still being relevant at any age.
Kate Wilson talks about her court case against the Metropolitan Police and the National Police Chiefs Council. She's taking the legal action because she fell in love with a man who wasn't who he said he was. He was an undercover policeman whose job was to infiltrate environmental protest groups.
Women's Football is seeing a huge growth in interest and exposure but there's some concern that the commentary of women's matches is too soft on mistakes and ends up sounding patronising. Ben Bloom, Telegraph sports columnist and commentator and Jacqui Oatley commentator and founding member of Women in Football discuss whether commentary should become more critical as the success of the game develops.
Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe has been sentenced to another year in an Iranian prison and has been banned from travelling abroad. Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe talks about how Nazanin felt after hearing about the sentence and what it means for their family.
Betty Webb MBE is 98 years old. During WW2 she worked at Bletchely Park and briefly at the Pentagon. She talks about promoting and remembering her war time experiences.
How does the order in which we are born into our families affect us and our whole lives? The writer Lynn Berger discusses why people choose to have a second child and what does it mean to be one.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:41.0 | Good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of podcasts. Nazanin Zagari Ratcliffe has been sentenced to another year in an Iranian prison |
| 0:54.6 | and she's banned from traveling abroad. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe talks about what |
| 0:58.8 | he's been told is being done to bring her home. We're doing all we can. |
| 1:03.3 | I think we're close. |
| 1:04.2 | You know, I promise you that, you know, lots of people are doing lots of things |
| 1:06.5 | and we all really care about it. |
| 1:07.6 | And, you know, that's probably true, but it hasn't worked. |
| 1:10.2 | And no, sympathy's not only at that, as you know, |
| 1:12.3 | it needs more than that. |
| 1:13.0 | Then Kate Wilson was an environmental campaigner who's now suing the Metropolitan Police and the National Police Chiefs Council |
| 1:20.0 | because the man she was in a relationship with wasn't who he said he was. |
| 1:25.0 | And writer Lynn Berger explores how the order in which we're born into our families affects |
| 1:29.8 | us. |
| 1:30.8 | But first, today if you're a woman you're likely to live into your 80s. |
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