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Anna Lapwood, Women leaders, Getting children back to school

Published: May 9, 2020, 4 p.m.

The conductor and organist Anna Lapwood tells us how she\u2019s 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\u2019s Leadership and Professor of Politics at King\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\nPresented by: Jenni Murray\nEditor: Jane Thurlow

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