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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, Ashling Murphy, Adult Literacy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Artist Tracey Emin shares why she wants an artwork she donated to the government’s art collection to be removed from display in Number 10 Downing Street. Last Wednesday afternoon, 23-year-old school teacher Ashling Murphy was killed while jogging along the banks of the Grand Canal in Tullamore, Ireland. The case has shocked the nation and revived concerns about women’s safety in public spaces in Ireland and the UK. We speak to Irish Times reporter Jade Wilson and veteran women's rights activist Ailbhe Smyth. In 1969 Muriel McKay was kidnapped after being mistaken for Rupert Murdoch’s wife. The story dominated front pages for weeks, and hundreds of police worked the case. After 40 days Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein were arrested, and later jailed, but Muriel was never found. We hear about the re-opening of the case from Muriel's daughter, Dianne McKay. Woman to Woman is the all-star group founded in 2018 and features musical artists Beverley Craven, Julia Fordham and Judie Tzuke. They now have a new album and a new collaborator, singer-songwriter Rumer. We catch up with member Julia Fordham. Nearly seven million adults in the UK have very poor literacy skills – many of whom are too ashamed or embarrassed to ask for help. What impact can struggling to read and write have on a woman’s life long-term? Ginny Williams-Ellis is the CEO of Ready Easy UK and Sarah Todd used Read Easy back in 2015. Plus do you practice self-love? Thirty Things I Love About Myself is a new comedic novel by Radhika Sanghani. It's been inspired by her own journey to loving herself – culminating in not one but two nude portraits of herself. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lucy Wai Editor: Sarah Crawley

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.1

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

0:10.1

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.

0:12.8

This is your chance to hear some of the best bits from across the week,

0:16.3

from the programme that offers a female perspective on the world.

0:20.2

Coming up, Tracy Eman, on why she wants her artwork to be removed from display

0:25.6

in number 10 Downing Street, plus adult literacy.

0:29.4

One woman shares her story and tells us how her struggle to read impacted her in the workplace.

0:35.6

If it says danger and I didn't recognise danger electric or danger hot surface,

0:41.3

then by the time I burnt myself or someone shout, don't go in there!

0:46.2

Why? It does say, do not enter. Oh yeah.

0:49.8

Oops. And I'd pay the silly jack. Oh yeah, you know,

0:53.0

I was just making sure that you were paying attention in my head thinking,

0:56.9

this is really not bad. But first, the killing of 23-year-old Irish primary school teacher

1:04.1

Ashling Murphy has shocked the nation and revived concerns about women's safety

1:08.9

in public spaces in Ireland and the UK.

1:11.8

Ashling was attacked and killed while outrunning on the banks of the Grand Canal

1:16.5

in Tullamore, County Offlee last Wednesday afternoon.

1:20.4

Irish police have since charged a 31-year-old man with murder.

1:25.2

There's been an outpouring of grief on social media and numerous visuals

1:29.2

have been held, including in Tullamore, Dublin, Cork, Belfast and London.

1:34.4

Ashling's killing has also amplified calls in Ireland for more to be done

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