Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, SEND reforms, Student midwives
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A 40-year career retrospective of Dame Tracey Emin’s work has opened at the Tate Modern in London, featuring many of the artist’s most iconic pieces, from her controversial, Turner Prize shortlisted My Bed (1998) to her neon artworks, textiles, bronze sculptures, photos, and paintings. Called A Second Life, it explores the connections and tensions between her early career and the work she’s created since 2020, when she was diagnosed with cancer and underwent a huge operation. Tracey joins Anita Rani to discuss her body of work.
Student midwives have contacted us to say many of them are struggling to find jobs despite a serious shortage of midwives in the NHS. A new survey from the Royal College of Midwives finds 31% of newly qualified midwives are still not employed in the role, and the majority of those who have found employment are on fixed-term contracts. Nuala McGovern hears from Safia, who is in her final year of midwifery training, and Gill Walton, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives.
Molly vs the Machines is a new feature-length documentary that tells the story of Ian Russell and his fight for online safety after his daughter Molly took her own life in 2017 following months of viewing content relating to self-harm and suicide on social media. Molly’s friends Charlotte Campbell and Sophie Conlan tell Anita why it was important for them to take part in the film.
In collaboration with our Send in the Spotlight podcast, Nuala speaks to Schools Standards Minister Georgia Gould about the government's proposed SEND reforms.
Writer and actor Kyla Harris joins Clare McDonnell to discuss reframing disability with her acclaimed BBC comedy We Might Regret This, which she co-created.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:45.7 | Hello and welcome to the programme. Coming up, the school's standards minister, Georgia Gould, |
| 0:51.0 | on the government's proposed send reforms. We find out why student midwives are finding |
| 0:55.7 | it so difficult to get a job when there's a chronic shortage within the NHS in England. |
| 1:01.0 | A powerful new documentary explores the story of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own |
| 1:06.4 | life in 2017 after viewing content relating to self-harm and suicide online. |
| 1:12.5 | We'll hear from two of her friends. |
| 1:14.7 | And the writer and actor Kyla Harris on reframing disability with her acclaimed comedy, |
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