Desert Island Discs Revisited

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Desert Island Discs Revisited: Football: Dame Sue Campbell

Dame Sue Campbell, Director Women's Football at the FA

Dame Sue Campbell

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Desert Island Discs Revisited, Football, Dame Sue Campbell

FA's Women's football director, Dame Sue Campbell, makes her castaway musical choices.

4 Extra Debut. From Elgar to Diana Ross, Sue Campbell, Director of Women's Football shares her castaway choices with Lauren Laverne. From 2020.

Dame Sue Campbell is the Director of Women’s Football at the Football Association.  The women’s game has become increasingly popular and the England team - the Lionesses - made it to the World Cup semi-finals in 2019.

In the mid-1980s, Sue became deputy chief executive (and a year later chief executive) of the National Coaching Foundation, which provided education for coaches at both ends of the spectrum, from parent volunteers to elite coaches.

In 1995, she co-founded the Youth Sport Trust to set up a sports activity programme for every primary school in the country.  It was hugely successful:  in 2003 only 23% of school children were getting two hours of PE a week. By 2008, this figure had risen to 95%. In 2010, the coalition government cut their funding.

By this time, back at the elite end of the sporting spectrum, Sue was also in charge of UK Sport, where she presided over Team GB's biggest Olympic medal haul in living memory, at the London 2012 games. In 2016, she became as head of Women’s Football at the FA. She has also been a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords since 2008.

BOOK CHOICE: The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
LUXURY ITEM: A photo album  
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Music Of My Heart by Gloria Estefan And *N SYNC

Presenter:  Lauren Laverne

Producer:  Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2020.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Football

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