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Woman's Hour: Anna Lapwood, Femicide research, June Almeida

Anna Lapwood, Femicide research, June Almeida

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Anna Lapwood, Femicide research, June Almeida

Inspiring girls to play the organ. Femicide research. The first human coronavirus

Encouraging young women and girls to become organists. Professor Elizabeth Yardley on her research into femicides. June Almeida who identified the first human coronavirus in 1964

Anna Lapwood is one of the UK’s few female concert organists. She was the first woman to be awarded an Organ Scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford, in its 560-year history. She was then appointed the youngest ever Director of Music at Pembroke College at Cambridge University aged just 21. She has used this position to spearhead a number of initiatives including a choir for 11-18 year old girls and the Cambridge Organ Experience for Girls which encourages girls to take up the organ. We hear her Pembroke Chapel Choir performing Media Vita by Karensa Briggs.  Anna's also making her presenting debut hosting BBC Four’s coverage of the BBC Young Musician 2020. 

MPs are to try to outlaw the courtroom murder defence of “rough sex gone wrong” during parliamentary debates on the domestic abuse bill, as cases of domestic violence soar during the coronavirus lockdown.  Elizabeth Yardley is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University. She tells us about her research into femicide in Great Britain in the 21st Century  and what action she thinks needs  to be taken to save women's lives and achieve justice for those killed.

In 1964, June Almeida identified the first human coronavirus at her laboratory in St Thomas' Hospital in London. Her paper to a peer-reviewed journal was rejected because the referees said the images she produced were just bad pictures of influenza virus particles. She died in 2007 and is only now getting recognition. Medical writer, George Winter explains more about how her research helps us in understanding COVID-19.

Inspired by the tradition of May Queens, the Queens of Industry represented industries like coal mining, railways, wool and cotton. The tradition began in the 1920s and took young women out of their day to day lives to promote their industry and represent their fellow workers. They were celebrated at an exhibition at Leeds Industrial Museum in 2018 and  Louise Adamson talked to the exhibition’s  curator, John McGoldrick; Deborah Barry, who was Northumbria Coal Queen in 1982 and Doreen Fletcher, née Kerfoot, who was Yorkshire Wool Queen in 1947.

Another in our series of interviews with women around the world who are sewing face masks at home for family, friends and sometimes health-workers to wear during the pandemic. Sara Fitzell is Maori and lives on the North Island of New Zealand.

Presented by Jenni Murray
Produced by Jane Thurlow

Interviewed guest: Elizabeth Yardley
Interviewed guest: George Winter
Interviewed guest: Anna Lapwood
Reporter: Louise Adamson
Reporter: Maria Margaronis

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