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Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, your place to listen to a carefully curated

selection of the standout moments from the week just gone on today's programme. An estimated

185,000 children in England and Wales were adopted in less than 30 years from 1949 right

up to 1976, many were unwanted adoptions. We hear from the MP Harriet Harman on why she's

calling for a formal apology from the government and we speak to an unmarried mother who was

forced to give her per baby in the 1960s. Football and the women's euros are tripped

down memory lane, a look back at the first ever England women's match 50 years ago and

why the class of 72 still haven't received their caps. Why one woman contacted as saying

she's noticed more and more disturbing content on TikTok, encouraging and featuring violence

against women and girls. The new and first female leader of Jersey on why we're seeing

more women get elected to their state's assembly than ever before and last but not least

a life performance from the poet and performer Lady Unchained and why she picked up the pen

in prison. But first an estimated 185,000 children in England and Wales were adopted in less

than 30 years from 1949 up to 1976 many were unwanted adoptions. Now the MP Harriet

Harman is calling for a formal apology to be issued by the government to the thousands

of unmarried mothers who had their babies taken for adoption in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

In a report published yesterday, the Joint Committee on Human Rights says the government's

bears ultimate responsibility for the pain and suffering caused by public institutions

and state employees that railroaded mothers into those unwanted adoptions. Harriet Harman

MP is chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Veronica Smith is the founder member

of the movement for an adoption apology. I started by asking Harriet what was accepted

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