ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Women's Footballer of the Year 2021; Ghislaine Maxwell court case; Adoption breakdown;Anorexia & relationships; Nicola Adams
All-time leading scorer in the FA WSL (Womenβs Super League) Vivianne Miedema of the Netherlands and Arsenal is the winner of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Women's Footballer of the Year 2021.
Vivianne Miedema of the Netherlands and Arsenal has been crowned the winner of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Women's Footballer of the Year 2021. The annual award from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service is voted for by football fans from around the world. She is the all-time leading scorer in the FA WSL (womenβs super league) and has scored more goals at the international level for the Netherlands than any other player, across both the women's and men's teams.
This month, November 2021 she became the first player in the history of the WSL to score against every team they have faced, after scoring against Manchester United.
The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to go on trial in New York City today on sex trafficking and other charges - in a highly anticipated trial. She is expected to challenge claims she groomed underage girls for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse. He died in prison in 2019. She has been in a US jail since her arrest last year. Laura Pullman is the Content Editor at the Sunday Times and is the former New York Correspondent and Stephen Wright is Associate Editor at the Daily Mail who joins the programme from outside the court in New York.
Nicola Adams OBE is officially Great Britainβs most successful female boxer of all time. She won gold at the London Olympics in 2012 and repeated the achievement in Rio in 2016. She is the only female boxer in the history of the sport to have won every major title available to her; Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth. So, itβs not a surprise that Amazon Prime Video have made a documentary about her. Lioness: The Nicola Adams Story explores her difficult upbringing and her battles with sexism, racism and homophobia to get in the ring. We find out how a girl from a council estate in Leeds became a #Lioness.
In the first part of a new series 'Under Pressure' Zoe and James explain how 'Ed' which is the name they gave Zoe's eating disorder changed their lives. How is a relationship impacted when life stuff happens?
We donβt often hear about adoptions that break down, but last week former ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scotland health correspondent Eleanor Bradford wrote about her "heart-breaking" decision to return her adopted son to the care system. She said she was unable to cope with her sonβs βextremely challengingβ behaviour and that she was βfurious about the lack of support for adoptive parentsβ in Scotland. Eleanor Bradford joins Emma to share her experience along with the chief executive of Adoption UK, Sue Armstrong Brown.
Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Kirsty Starkey
Interviewed Guest: Stephen Wright
Interviewed Guest: Laura Pullman
Interviewed Guest: Vivianne Miedema
Interviewed Guest: Nicola Adams
Interviewed Guest: Eleanor Bradford
Interviewed Guest: Sue Armstrong Brown
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