Weekend Woman's Hour: Violence against women and girls, Kate Hudson, Female tribute bands

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week the Government set out its strategy to deal with violence against women and girls. This makes up nearly 20% of all recorded crime in England and Wales. Over the last year alone, one in every eight women was a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking, according to Home Office figures. Educating boys on misogyny is a key aim of the strategy and figures show that nearly one in five boys aged 13 to 15 are said to hold a positive view of the self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate, according to a YouGov poll. Alex Davies-Jones, the minister for Victims and Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls, joins Anita Rani to discuss the Government's strategy.

Hollywood actor Kate Hudson’s latest movie Song Sung Blue is based on the real life story of Wisconsin couple Mike and Claire Sardina. Kate plays Claire, who along with her husband Mike, played by Hugh Jackman, finds local fame in the 1990s as a Neil Diamond tribute act. Kate tells Anita about the appeal of the role and how she’s now found empowerment and her voice.

Woman’s Hour celebrates the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Nuala McGovern delves into the world that Jane was born into in 1775. She is joined by the author Gill Hornby, President of the UK Jane Austen Society, and by Dr Zoe McGee whose book Courting Disaster explores the issue of consent in Regency literature.

According to a survey in the press this week, nearly half of younger women surveyed said they are confident in painting and decorating, compared with just 28% of young men. The stats are from the motoring and cycling firm Halfords who said its study revealed a reversal from previous generations. We hear from Vickie Lee, DIY YouTuber known online as The Carpenter's Daughter, alongside Caroline Henn, founder of bePractical DIY in Bristol, who runs courses aimed at making DIY accessible.

We celebrate the phenomenon of female tribute acts to male bands. Gobby Holder, aka Danie Cox of Slady and Lolo Wood of The Fallen Women and Ye Nuns discuss.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, Greg Jenner here, host of You're Dead to Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:13.4	This Christmas, forget about socks. We've got the best present of all.
0:17.2	Dead people!
0:18.2	All that sounds like zombies. Sorry, it's not zombies. Let me start again.
0:21.8	In our new family-friendly podcast series, dead funny history, historical figures come back to life
0:26.8	but just long enough to argue with me, tell their life stories and sometimes get on my nerves.
0:31.8	You're dead to me.
0:32.8	Dead funny history.
0:34.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:41.3	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:47.8	Hello and welcome to the programme. Coming up, we take a look at the life of Jane Austen in the week marking 250 years since her birth.
0:57.2	Why more young women are confident tackling DIY and if that's not you, what you can do to get started.
1:03.9	What happens when women take on legendary male bands?
1:08.1	Female tribute acts are rewriting the rules. We'll hear from gobbie Holder of Slady.
1:14.5	You heard right. And keeping with the tribute vibe, actor Kate Hudson talks about her new film
1:20.6	where she fronts a Neil Diamond tribute band. But first, a national emergency. That's how the scale of violence against women and girls has been described and not for the first time.
1:33.3	On Thursday, the government set out its strategy to tackle the issue.
1:37.4	Violence against women and girls accounts for nearly 20% of all recorded crime in England and Wales.
1:47.9	In the past year alone, one in eight women was a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking according to home office figures. A key aim for
1:54.5	the strategy is educating boys about misogyny. A recent UGov poll found that nearly one in five boys, age 13 to 15,
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