Weekend Woman's Hour: Women's Football World Cup, the word Wife, Chelsea Pensioner Helen Andrews
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We look ahead to the Women’s Football World Cup in France with former England, Chelsea and West Ham player Claire Rafferty, BBC Women’s Sports reporter Jo Currie and Gemma Clarke author of Soccer Women: the Icons, Rebels, Starts and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game.
The author Elif Shafak tells us about her latest novel 10 minutes 38 seconds In This Strange World.
The Violinist Nicola Bennedetti talks about her new album a collaboration with the jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.
The writer and journalist Francesca Segal tells us about her identical twin daughters born prematurely at 30 weeks and how her expectations of motherhood were shattered by their early arrival.
As part of coaching week talk to Louisa Arnold and Kim Johnson about Project 500, a scheme to inspire and support women to become sports coaches.
We hear about a new play Wife which explores the meaning of the word wife over 90 years with the director Indhu Rubasingham and Dr Rebecca Jennings lecturer in modern gender history at UCL.
As we mark D Day this week we hear from Chelsea Pensioner Helen Andrews one of thousands of women who volunteered for the British Army at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
Presented by Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Eleanor Garland
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| 0:41.0 | Good afternoon in today's program, a new novel by the Turkish British writer Elyf Schaffak tells the story of a young |
| 0:48.7 | woman abused as a child and forced into prostitution. We discuss why the subject she writes about would put |
| 0:56.4 | her at risk if she returned to Turkey. The violinist Nicola Benedetti and what draws young people to her music. |
| 1:05.0 | A lot of the time the most moving intimate, sweet, sad song is the thing that they become transfixed by that and I've never had an experience |
| 1:16.8 | of playing some classical music for young people that they're not engaged. In the week where D-Day was commemorated on both sides of the channel, Private Helen Andrews, now a |
| 1:29.0 | Chelsea pensioner, looks back on her life at Bletchley Park in Coaching Week the aims of Project 500 |
| 1:36.7 | encouraging and helping women coach in a range of sports. A play called Wife |
| 1:42.2 | inspired by Eibson's The Dolls House, traces the meaning of the |
| 1:46.2 | word through one and a half centuries. And Francesca Siegel's memoir The Mothership |
| 1:52.1 | relates the support women give to each other in a special care baby unit. |
| 1:58.0 | We sat side by side half naked, expressing milk for our babies and expressing ourselves to one another, and they were funny and raucous and outrageous under these incredibly difficult circumstances and we carried one another through. |
| 2:13.0 | The FIFA Women's Football World Cup began in France yesterday. |
| 2:19.0 | The opening match was of course between France and South Korea and Scotland will play England tomorrow. |
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