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Woman's Hour: Poet Joelle Taylor, Fantasy Football and Yusra Mardini and  Sally El Hosaini

16/11/2022

Poet Joelle Taylor, Fantasy Football and Yusra Mardini and  Sally El Hosaini

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Poet Joelle Taylor, Fantasy Football and Yusra Mardini and  Sally El Hosaini

Poet Joelle Taylor, winner of the Polari Prize and the rise of women in Fantasy Football.

Poet Joelle Taylor, winner of the Polari Prize and why there's been a huge rise in the number of women playing Fantasy Football.

Poet Joelle Taylor won the Polari Prize last night and the TS Eliot Prize in January this year. Over a long career as a writer for the page and the stage she has explored butch lesbian counterculture and told the stories of the women in underground communities fighting for the right to be themselves. She joins Emma Barnett to explain how joining the literary establishment fits with a lifetime of protest. 

As Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Dominic  Raab stands in for Prime Minister's Questions today, despite accusations of bullying, we look at how MPs and the macho culture of Westminster can be called to account without an ethics advisor, since Lord Geidt resigned earlier this year. Emma speaks to Pippa Crerar political editor of The Guardian and Christine Jardine, Liberal Democrat MP Edinburgh West, spokesperson for Cabinet Office, Women and Equalities and Scotland, who yesterday tabled a bill asking for parliament to appoint an ethics advisor if the conservative party fails to do so.  

We speak to director Sally El Hosaini about her new film The Swimmers which is based on the true story two Syrian sisters who fled Damascus in a dinghy boat in order to escape war and build a new life for themselves. One of those sisters, Yusra Mardini, will also be speaking to Emma Barnett about how she feels about her story being turned into a film. 

Fantasy Football is a hugely popular online game which requires building a make believe team of real world players who compete in the Premier League. But the growth of women managers has exceeded that of men in the last five years, rising by 112%. With the Premier League taking a break for the first ever winter World Cup, we explore the challenges early female participants of Fantasy Football have faced and what their participation in the game, and a growing interest in football, could have on the sport.

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