Anna Lapwood, Women leaders, Getting children back to school

The conductor and organist Anna Lapwood tells us how she’s trying to get more girls to take up the organ.

Have women leaders handled the global health crisis of Covid-19 better than the men? And, what might explain why? Rosie Campbell, Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership and Professor of Politics at King’s College London, and Clare Wenham, Assistant Professor in Global Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science discuss.

If lockdown measures are relaxed and children start the process of going back to school how will it work? Are social distancing measures remotely feasible with class sizes of 30? We hear from Dr Emma Kell who trains teachers and works for a pupil referral unit and virologist Professor Jonathan Ball.

We look at why the number of women experts used in news programmes across all networks has fallen during the Covid-19 pandemic? Emeritus Professor Lis Howell, who directs the Expert Women Project which records and reports the appearance of women authority figures on news programmes, and former cabinet minister Baroness Morgan of Cotes discuss.

Could your relationship survive one partner’s endurance sport obsession? In her new novel The Motion of the Body Through Space, Lionel Shriver explores the impact of extreme exercise on the ageing body and on one marriage in particular.

Produced by: Rabeka Nurmahomed Presented by: Jenni Murray Editor: Jane Thurlow

Interviewed guest: Rosie Campbell Interviewed guest: Clare Wenham Interviewed guest: Professor Jonathan Ball Interviewed guest: Dr Emma Kell Interviewed guest: Anna Lapwood Interviewed guest: Baroness Morgan of Cotes Interviewed guest: Professor Lis Howell Interviewed guest: Lionel Shriver