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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman’s Hour – Music artist Raye, COPA 71 and Imelda May on the Yeats sisters

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The South London singer-songwriter Raye joins Emma Barnett following her record-breaking six wins at the Brit awards last weekend. Raye tells us about her grandma Agatha who joined her on stage after winning Best Album for My 21st Century Blues. She also talks about being a woman in the music industry and the strength she has found from fellow female musician Charli XCX.

A new documentary, Copa 71, follows the trailblazing women who headed to Mexico for an unofficial Women's World Cup in 1971. Woman's football had been banned in many countries including the UK for 50 years. Unperturbed 6 teams gathered and played in front of crowds of 100,000 fans. One of those players, Chris Lockwood joins Anita Rani alongside co-director of the film Rachel Ramsay.

On the 3rd March 2021, Sarah Everard was murdered by Wayne Couzens, an off-duty police officer. The incident sparked national outrage and a surge in fighting violence against women and girls. Three years on, how much has changed? Emma Barnett speaks to the Detective Inspector who interviewed Wayne Couzens, Nick Harvey.

Imelda May talks about her new documentary Lily and Lolly: The Forgotten Yeats Sisters, on Sky Arts. Elizabeth and Susan Yeats (also known as Lolly and Lily) founded a women-only arts and crafts guild to promote women’s economic and cultural independence. Overshadowed by their famous brothers, W.B Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats…until now.

The author Liz Jensen’s son Raphael was a wildlife biologist, an environmental activist, and a prominent member of Extinction Rebellion. In 2020, at the age of 25, he unexpectedly collapsed and died due to an unknown heart condition. Liz speaks to Emma about her new memoir, Your Wild and Previous Life, about her process of grief, hope and rebellion.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds.

0:02.0

Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.

0:06.0

But you sit down and be bright.

0:08.0

Celebrating women's voices.

0:10.0

You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.

0:14.8

This is juicy. No limits, no limits.

0:17.2

Celebrating women.

0:18.8

Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out

0:24.4

where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.

0:28.8

Lesson on BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

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

0:41.0

Just to say that for rights reasons the music in the original radio

0:45.2

broadcast has been removed for this podcast. Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.

0:50.0

Put the kettle on, grab a cuper and settle in for this week's highlights coming up.

0:54.9

Have you ever felt that you had some sense or premonition of things to come?

0:59.8

We speak to author Liz Jensen about her experience.

1:03.6

Nick Harvey, the former detective inspector who led the arrest of Wayne Cousins,

1:08.0

the off-duty police officer who murdered Sarah Everard joins us to discuss the case and do you know much about the Yates

1:15.2

sisters Elizabeth and Susan Irish singer-songwriter and poet Emelda May tells us more

1:21.2

but first the woman of the Moment, Ray. If you hadn't heard her name before last weekend,

1:27.2

you've probably heard it several times since then. The South London Singer Songwriter is the hottest star in music right now,

1:34.7

winning six Brit awards in one night,

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