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Woman's Hour: Oti Mabuse's second Strictly win; Virtual child protection conferences; Liz Berry's poetry

26/12/2020

Oti Mabuse's second Strictly win; Virtual child protection conferences; Liz Berry's poetry

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Oti Mabuse's second Strictly win; Virtual child protection conferences; Liz Berry's poetry

The Strictly reigning champion on how she got Bill Bailey to victory.

Oti Mabuse on how she became the first pro to win two years in a row. Will we ever return to in-person meetings for vulnerable children? Plus, the evocative poetry of Liz Berry.

Labour MP Stella Creasy joins us to discuss buy now pay later services, and whether they should be regulated. 

Oti Mabuse and partner Bill Bailey have been crowned Strictly Come Dancing champions as they took the 2020 glitter ball trophy home on Saturday. Oti Mabuse is the first professional to win the competition two years in a row. Next year, she is going on tour with her new show ‘I AM HERE', which explores her journey from growing up in South Africa, to becoming a multi-award winning dancer.

The mezzo-soprano Patricia Hammond is celebrating the parlour song. Composed by women, these domestic songs of the Victorian era have largely been marginalised or forgotten. In her new book and CD, She Wrote the Songs, she tells us about the women behind the songs and their importance to musical history.

We heard earlier in the pandemic that in-person meetings for vulnerable children had become mostly impossible. But now child protection professionals feel that face-to-face conferences are unlikely to ever resume. So what does that mean for the children in question? And what is missed as a result? Lisa Harker from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory joins us. 

A new BBC three-part drama Black Narcissus tells the story of a group of Anglo-Catholic nuns who travel to the Himalayas to set up a school in an abandoned clifftop palace, which was once known as the 'House of Women'. It's adapted from Rumer Godden's 1939 novel, and the writer Amanda Coe joins Jane to discuss.

The breast surgeon and breast cancer survivor, Liz O'Riordan, tells us the story behind her 'Jar of Joy'.

And the award-winning poet Liz Berry shares her evocative poetry inspired by her love for the Black Country.

Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Rosie Stopher
Editor: Beverley Purcell

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