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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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Tonight sees the 70th Ivor Novello awards taking place at Grosvenor House in London. They are coveted in the UK music industry because they specifically celebrate songwriting. Singer-songwriter Lola Young leads the nominations this year including one for 'best song musically and lyrically' for her breakthrough hit Messy, which spent a month at number one in the UK earlier this year. Does this spell good news for women in the music industry? Anita Rani is joined by Linda Coogan-Byrne to discuss.
If you've ever had the bad luck of getting a UTI - or Urinary Tract Infection - you'll know how painful they can be. It's a bacterial infection which can affect the bladder, urethra or kidneys and give a burning or stinging sensation when you urinate. Yesterday, in a powerful parliamentary session, the Labour MP Allison Gardner spoke through tears as she described her experiences of chronic UTIs. The MP for Stoke on Trent is now hoping to launch a cross-party parliamentary group to look at chronic UTIs - Allison joins Anita, as does the GP Ellie Cannon.
A major new exhibition opens this week at The Imperial War Museum in London. Called Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, it looks at the atrocities inflicted during war and conflict from the First World War until the present day. Helen Upcraft is the exhibition’s lead curator and Sara Bowcutt is the Managing Director of Women for Women International, one of the NGOs working in the field of sexual violence in conflict, who’ve also contributed to this exhibition. They join Anita in the studio.
Women and listening... how do women listen? How good a listener are you? Two books out this month focus on listening, from listening to sounds to listening more deeply to other people. Anita speaks to writers Alice Vincent, and Emily Kasriel.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones
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0:00.0 | Hello, it's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of ladies swindlers. |
0:07.5 | Promise never to mention a word of what is going on. |
0:10.1 | Join me and my all-female team of detectives as we revisit the audacious crimes of women trying to make it in a world made for men. |
0:19.5 | This is a story of working class women trying to get by. |
0:24.4 | This is survival. |
0:25.3 | Join me for the second season of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history with a twist. |
0:31.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:36.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:40.7 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:45.6 | Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast. |
0:52.1 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. Do you have a memory of a time |
0:56.7 | you listen to something really amazing? We're discussing sounds and the art of deep listening today. |
1:04.0 | So this morning, I'd like us all to sit together for just a second, just pause whatever you're |
1:09.1 | doing for a couple of seconds right now if you can. |
1:12.5 | And tell me what you hear. |
1:14.4 | Or tell me about a sound that brings you joy. |
1:17.4 | It could be a cat purring. |
1:18.8 | The sound of a cuckoo of a heartbeat, your baby's heartbeat in your womb. |
1:22.6 | The sound of your own blood wishing, rain on a tent, your lover gently snoring next to you. You get the idea. |
1:30.1 | Get in touch, whatever it might be. The text number is 84844. You can email the program via our website. |
1:36.8 | You can WhatsApp me on 0-3700-100-444. And if you'd like to follow us on social media, it's at BBC Woman's Hour. |
1:45.1 | Also on the programme today, chronic UTIs, urinary tract infections. |
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