Wes Streeting, Virginia Giuffre memoir, Pacific Ocean rowers

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting joins Anita Rani to announce new government policy on women’s health.

Anita speaks to Amy Wallace, the writer and journalist who worked with Virginia Giuffre on her posthumously published memoir Nobody’s Girl. After two years of conversations, emails and extensive fact-checking, the book lays bare the life-wrecking impact of power, corruption and industrial-scale sex abuse, but it is also the story of how a young woman survived and became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors and continued to work toward justice.

The Government have announced that the SEND White Paper expected this autumn is delayed until next year. BBC Education reporter Kate McGough joins Anita to tell us more.

After 165 days at sea, two British women have just made history becoming the first pair to row non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean, from South America to Australia. Jess Rowe, 28, and Miriam Payne, 25, set off from Lima in May and arrived in Cairns in Australia on Saturday, completing more than 8,000 miles in their nine-metre boat, Velocity. Along the way they faced storms, broken equipment, and even navigated by the stars when their systems failed - they join Anita to talk about the highs and lows of their Pacific adventure.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones

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0:43.2	Hi, I'm Nula McGovern and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. While you're here,
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1:29.2	Guide to Life. Join us only on BBC Sounds, but now back to today's Woman's Hour. Good morning,
1:36.5	welcome to the program. The Secretary for Health and Social Care, West Treating, will be here to announce
1:41.7	an update on the government's health strategy for women.
1:45.6	Amy Wallace co-authored Virginia Jafray's memoir Nobody's Girl and will be talking to us about her raw, shocking and deeply disturbing story.
1:55.9	And two British women have just made history becoming the first all-female team and the youngest ever pair to row non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean.
2:06.9	165 days at sea. Just the two of them. What a challenge. What test of endurance and friendship. They put their success in part down to being great teammates. So what has a friendship
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