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Woman's Hour: Nannie, the figurehead for the Cutty Sark; The power of giving away power; No fault divorce;

Nannie, the figurehead for the Cutty Sark; The power of giving away power; No fault divorce;

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Nannie, the figurehead for the Cutty Sark; The power of giving away power; No fault divorce;

Nannie and Cutty Sark; Good Leadership; DJ Jaguar; No-fault divorce; Women's Super League

Nannie and the Cutty Sark; Matthew Barzun, Baroness Amos and the power of giving away power; DJ Jaguar and diversity in music; the delay of no fault divorce; Women's Super League.

The G7 kicks off  in Cornwall today.  Boris Johnson and leaders from Japan, Canada, Italy and France who make up the Group of Seven will be joined by US President Joe Biden and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel . On the agenda the biggest issues affecting our world - everything from climate change to the economic recovery post Covid. But how should they change their approach?  How much better could things be if leaders, instead of lording their power over us and operating a top-down approach, did something different? In his new book 'The Power of Giving Away Power', Matthew Barzun argues that if leaders  just let go and listened and worked more closely with their colleagues, we'd see things thrive and grow. Baroness Valerie Amos, now the Master of University College, Oxford joins him.

As live music events draw closer and closer, we ask – how diverse is the music industry? And what can be done to make things more inclusive? We hear from one DJ Jaguar, about her own experiences and an initiative to train other young women.

As no fault divorce is delayed we ask if there is a way to make divorce less complicated and confrontational?  We hear from Ellie, who is in the middle of a break-up, a high profile divorce lawyer, Ayesha Vardag, and Kate Daly, the founder of Amicable – an online divorce service. 

In the Women's Super League the transfer window opens today with a new rule forcing clubs to include eight homegrown players in their squad. They must have been trained by their club, or another club in England, for at least three years before their 21st birthday. BBC sports presenter, Charlie Webster, joins Chloe Tilley.

Today the new figurehead known as Nannie will start to be installed on the prow of the famous ship, the Cutty Sark: the tea clipper that resides in a specially designed dry dock in Greenwich next to the river Thames in London. The figurehead of a ship is often a woman but why and what is their significance?  Louise Macfarlane, senior curator at the Cutty Sark, explains. 

Presenter: Chloe Tilley
Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Baroness Valerie Amos
Interviewed Guest: Matthew Barzun
Interviewed Guest: Jaguar Bingham
Interviewed Guest: Kate Daly 
interviewed Guest: Ayesha Vardag
Interviewed Guest: Ellie
Interviewed Guest: Charlie Webster
Interviewed Guest: Louise Macfarlane

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