Weekend Woman's Hour: Women's Finances and Feminist Fairytales
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Annabel Rook dedicated her life to supporting vulnerable women, yet her own life was violently taken by her partner. Annabel co-founded MamaSuze, a creative grassroots arts organisation in North London to enhance the lives of women who have survived violence. Her co-founder, Catherine Milne and Annabel's sister Sophie join Chloe Tilley to discuss Annabel's impact and what people can learn from their loss.
Money is broken for women, according to the founders of Female Invest - a subscription-based financial education app founded in Denmark. In their new book, It’s a Rich Man’s World, they explore the life events and systemic obstacles that women face in building and holding on to wealth. Krupa Padhy talks to co-founder Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen about the possible solutions.
As part of Radio 4's Once Upon a Time season we're looking at fairytales through a feminist lens. Award-winning author Kirsty Logan joins us down the line from Glasgow and the mythologist and psychologist Dr Sharon Blackie joins us from Cumbria. They tell Nuala McGovern why they believe women need fairy tales now more than ever and, crucially, why we should keep re-writing them for ourselves.
In the week that Baroness Amos released her long-awaited National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation into maternity service failings in England, we hear reaction from the Labour MP and Government Maternity Advisor Michelle Welsh.
When the award-winning poet Helen Mort became a stepmother, she went in search of literary role models, but was sadly disappointed by portrayals from the fairytale ‘wicked queen’ to the put-upon parent of the modern blended family. She talks to Anita Rani about creating her new collection, Stepmother, to re-write the role.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Kirsty McQuire
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.9 | Hi, I'm Zing Singh. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Simon Jack. |
| 0:09.3 | And together we host Good Bad Billionaire. |
| 0:11.4 | The podcast exploring how some of the world's richest people made their fortunes. |
| 0:15.2 | And we're back for a new season with a brand new lineup of billionaires. |
| 0:18.6 | Yeah, global pop icon Beyonce. |
| 0:20.6 | Hollywood movie director Stephen Spielberg. |
| 0:22.8 | Football superstar Christiana Rinaldo, anyone? |
| 0:25.2 | And as ever, we're asking you to decide whether they're good, bad or just another billionaire. |
| 0:30.0 | That's good, bad, billionaire. |
| 0:31.3 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, this is Krupa Party and you're listening to the Women's Hour podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:41.6 | Coming up, the government's own maternity advisor, Michelle Welsh, reacts to the Government |
| 0:46.0 | Commission Review of Maternity Services in England, led by Baroness Amos. |
| 0:50.9 | Also, is money broken for women? |
| 0:53.5 | The female founders of a financial education app made for women think so, and one of them tells us why. And fairy tales viewed through a feminist lens, how they've shapeshifted through time and why we should keep rewriting them for ourselves. |
| 1:08.0 | But first to the case of Annabel Rook. She dedicated her life to |
| 1:13.0 | supporting vulnerable women, including survivors of gender-based violence, yet her own life was violently |
| 1:18.8 | taken by her partner. In June last year at their home, Clifton George attacked her, stabbing |
| 1:24.7 | her multiple times as she tried to end their relationship of more than 10 years. |
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