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Woman's Hour: Doctors' strike, Organist Anna Lapwood, Máiría Cahill,  Suffragette medal

Doctors' strike, Organist Anna Lapwood, Máiría Cahill,  Suffragette medal

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Doctors' strike, Organist Anna Lapwood, Máiría Cahill,  Suffragette medal

Organist Anna Lapwood on why she initiated the social media hashtag #playlikeagirl.

Organist Anna Lapwood on why she initiated the social media hashtag #playlikeagirl, and Máiría Cahill on her memoir Rough Beast.

It's day two of the 72-hour joint strike by junior doctors and consultants in the NHS. Dr Helen Neary, deputy chair of the BMA's consultant's committee and consultant anaesthetist in paediatrics and BBC’s Health Correspondent Nick Triggle joins Emma to discuss the strike and parts of the Health Secretary's speech today.

Nicknamed the Taylor Swift of classical music, Anna Lapwood is one of the world's most famous organists, and Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge.  To encourage more women to try the instrument, Anna initiated the social media hashtag #playlikeagirl.  She joins Emma to talk about her music and her new album Luna.

Máiría Cahill grew up in a staunchly Republican family and community in west Belfast.  At the age of 16 she says she was serially sexually assaulted and raped by a member of the IRA, and was later subjected to months of meetings about that trauma by the IRA, including being brought face to face with her alleged attacker.  In 2014 Máiría waived her anonymity and has been relentless in her campaign to expose those who abused their power, and to get an apology for the way she was treated from senior Sinn Fein politicians.  Máiría has written a memoir, Rough Beast, and joins Emma to talk about it.

Glasgow Women’s Library is the UK’s only accredited woman’s history museum. For the last 32 years they’ve championed feminist stories from Scotland and beyond through their research, exhibitions and artefacts that have all been donated. However, for the first time they’re entering an auction to bring a piece of Scottish suffragette history back home. Emma Barnett speaks to operations director Sue John on the day of the auction.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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