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Woman's Hour: Women's Rugby League World Cup, Matt Hancock in the jungle, Friends Forever - Nina, US midterms

Women's Rugby League World Cup, Matt Hancock in the jungle, Friends Forever - Nina, US midterms

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Women's Rugby League World Cup, Matt Hancock in the jungle, Friends Forever - Nina, US midterms

The women's ambassador for the Rugby League World Cup on how to get more women involved.

England's Rugby League Women's team play their next World Cup match against Papua New Guinea tonight.  Joining Emma to talk about how to get more women involved in the game are the official Women's Ambassador for the Rugby League World Cup Jodie Cunningham and the Captain Emily Rudge.  Jodie is also an Ambassador for the RLWC's Social Impact Programme which champions inclusive volunteering.  We hear from volunteer Jenny Robinson, who is a wheelchair user and has learning disabilities, who says it's changed her life.

Whether you choose to watch or not, you won’t have escaped the news that reality show I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! is back on TV and that Matt Hancock, the former Health Secretary during the pandemic, who had to resign over breaking his own rules when an affair with an aide was exposed by the newspapers -  is due to make his first appearance in the jungle camp in Australia tonight.  Christine Hamilton, media personality and author, married to former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton - came third in the first series of I'm a Celebrity 20 years ago - back in 2002.  She gives her view to Emma, as does Dr Cathy Gardner, who brought a judicial review on the government's discharge policy of hospitals to care homes at the beginning of the pandemic against Matt Hancock, the NHS and Public Health England – and won.

Results are being declared in the US midterm elections.  The Republicans currently have the most seats in the House of Representatives but it is still unclear which party could gain control of the Senate.  Abortion has played a role in these elections, with the first batch of exit polls showing that for 3 in 10 Americans, abortion was the most important issue. The Democrats ran campaigns that focussed on abortion rights and poll as the most trusted party with this issue, but has the importance of abortion rights been overplayed?  Emma speaks to Amanda Taub, writer for The New York Times.

Over the last few weeks we've been talking about the power and the pain of female friendship. A Woman's Hour Listener we are calling Nina contacted us - she was listening to one of the episodes exploring whether friendships can be repaired - and it really chimed with her.  Our reporter Jo Morris met Nina at her home to hear her story.

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