Women train drivers. The new smear test. Novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Southeastern trains said fewer than 5% of its drivers are women. They've launched a campaign to get forty percent of applicants to be women by 2021. Driver Kelly-Joe Ballard talks to Jane about why she loves the job.

All graphic images of self-harm will be removed from Instagram, the head of the social media platform has told the BBC. This is after the father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, said Instagram had "helped kill" his daughter. We hear from Naomi Salisbury the Director of Self Injury Support:

At just 25 US journalist Noor Tagouri is already breaking down barriers in the media industry. She joins Jane to discuss her career and what it means to be a Muslim female journalist in America today. By the end of this year a new smear test system will be rolled out across England. It’s already happening in Wales. It’s taken decades of research to get to this point but experts say the new screening regime will be more accurate. Dr Matejka Rebolj a Senior Epidemiologist at King’s College London explains more.

And the author, Yvonne Battle-Felton discusses the lengths mothers go to protect their children in even the most tragic circumstances, themes explored in her novel Remembered.

Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest; Noor Tagouri Guest; Ellie Burrows Guest; Kelly-Joe Ballard Guest; Yvonne Battle-Felton Guest; Dr Matejka Rebolj Guest; Naomi Salisbury

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0:34.4	Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and thank you, you have downloaded Friday, the 8th of February 2019's
0:40.1	edition of the Women's Out Podcast. On the pod today, how do you fancy being a
0:45.0	train driver? If you've never thought about it, and actually the overwhelming
0:49.2	majority of train drivers are men, have a listen to the interview with Kelly Joe on the program today. I think
0:55.2	it might galvanize a few women and hopefully young women into considering that as a job because
1:00.9	I thought she sold it absolutely brilliantly. We'll talk to to the novelist
1:04.4	Yvonne Battle Felton, whose new novel remembered is the story of an emancipated slave and much more
1:10.7	besides. And we'll discuss the new smear test so that's on the podcast today
1:16.3	first of all though you won't have missed the headlines about Instagram we've now
1:20.8	discovered that all graphic images of self-harm are going to be removed from
1:24.8	Instagram. This is from the head of the social media platform in conversation with the BBC.
1:29.5	This of course is after the father of 14- old Molly Russell who took her own life in 2017
1:36.8	said that Instagram had helped kill his daughter.
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