Women and Gambling. Interim Mayor of Liverpool Wendy Simon. True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Women and Gambling.
Pauline and Derek Tremain are a couple who work together, running a small business from home in Kent. It's not your run of the mill business however, they provide a very specialist service called 'body mapping' to police forces up and down the country, painstakingly recreating murder injuries with 3D imaging for juries to look at. They talk to Emma about their memoir How to Solve a Murder - True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine.
Elaine Paige is an award-winning star of the West End and Broadway. . What, you may ask, would such a woman have to worry about? Well if you've been reading the Radio Times or the papers recently, you'll know that her height - just 4 foot 11 has made her feel horribly insecure throughout her life and caused her to be both literally and metaphorically overlooked. We hear from Elizabeth Carr-Ellis from Canterbury who's the same height and knows exactly how she feels.
Wendy Simon found herself unexpectedly running a city from her living room in December, as Interim Mayor of Liverpool. She explain how she took the reins in such a challenging time.
Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's Emma Barnett here. Welcome to the Women's Ave podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Good morning. We want to start today's programme by just taking a moment to think of the estimated |
| 0:14.8 | 10,000 pregnant unmarried women who were treated as fallen women and forced to live in the institutions, |
| 0:21.4 | which became known as the Magdalene Laundries on the island of Ireland right through the 20th century. |
| 0:26.9 | The last one of those places closed its doors as recently as the 90s. |
| 0:32.0 | Today, the leaders of the Northern Ireland executive will make a decision on whether there will be a public inquiry into the treatment of these women, |
| 0:40.2 | which their families and descendants have long campaigned for. |
| 0:44.0 | They want answers, accountability and justice. |
| 0:48.5 | We will continue to follow the story here on Women's Ave, |
| 0:51.3 | but want to mark this moment at the start of today's programme and think about these women's lives. |
| 0:58.6 | On today's programme, what is it like to become the mayor of a city with 10 minutes notice, |
| 1:04.4 | a legal investigation hanging over your head, and a pandemic raging, all from your front room? |
| 1:10.2 | Liverpool Mayor Wendy Simons joins us to tell us what's been going on there, |
| 1:14.6 | and Napoleon's syndrome for women. Does it exist? |
| 1:18.1 | Perhaps it's affected you. What's your take on it? |
| 1:20.2 | The 4-4-11 single lane page has spoken out about the effects of being short and how that has impacted her life. |
| 1:27.6 | But how about you? You can text us here at Women's Ave, 848-44. |
| 1:31.7 | Text will be charged at your standard message rate. |
| 1:34.2 | Do you check with your network provider for those exact costs on social media where at BBC Women's Ave? |
| 1:39.2 | Or you can email us through our website. |
| 1:41.5 | Many messages already coming in on social media. |
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