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Woman's Hour

Pornography review, Padel, Esther Ghey, Rory

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The government has published an independent review into the world of online pornography, Creating a Safer World - the challenge of regulating online pornography, written by the Conservative Peer Baroness Gabby Bertin. It proposes outlawing “degrading, violent and misogynistic content,” including making it illegal to possess or publish pornography showing women being choked during sex. Anita Rani talks to the BBC's Home Editor, Mark Easton and Fiona Vera-Gray, Professor of Sexual Violence at London Metropolitan University, about the review's findings.

Padel – a cross between squash and tennis - is said to be the fastest growing sport in the world. So what about the women in the game? Whether it’s on the local padel court or the business and money-making side, women are currently massively under-represented. Joining Anita are Eloise Tait – GB’s #5 women’s player – who will be competing at 2025’s Britain Padel Tour in London tomorrow – and Astrid Tamms from Spain’s Hexagon Cup.

Singer-songwriter and ADHD YouTube influencer RØRY, who has co-written three top 10 hits for other artists including Charlie XCX, has finally broken through the charts with a top 10 album of her own at the age of 40. She takes Anita on her journey from being addicted to drugs and alcohol to her recovery and new found success, and performs her song, One Drink Away, live in the studio.

Esther Ghey’s transgender daughter Brianna was murdered in February 2023 by two 15 year olds. The killers were radicalised online, and 16-year-old Brianna herself was harmfully addicted to her phone, despite all of her mum’s efforts to limit her usage. Esther has now become a campaigner for the safer use of smartphones for children, and for the use of mindfulness in schools. She also decided to forgive her child’s killers, and is now friends with one of their mothers. Esther joins Anita in the Woman’s Hour studio to talk about her new memoir, Under a Pink Sky.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.7

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.4

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.9

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.9

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:16.0

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.9

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.2

Science with funny bits.

0:22.0

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.2

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:29.1

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:33.4

Hello, I'm Anita Rani, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:38.3

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

0:44.8

Good morning. Welcome to the program.

0:47.8

Esther Jai's transgender daughter, Brianna, was murdered in February 2023 by two 15-year-olds.

0:55.3

Esther has written a very raw and honest memoir

0:58.3

about her own life and about the power of forgiveness.

1:02.2

She's since become friends with the mother of one of the murderers.

1:05.3

Esther will be joining me shortly.

1:08.1

Also on the programme, singer-songwriter Rory's album Restoration has gone straight in at

1:13.0

number 10 in the UK charts. After writing successfully for others, she's finally got success under

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