WH Power list sports journalist Fiona Tomas, Climate justice activist Mikaela Loach, Narcissistic mothers, WASPI women

Published: April 4, 2023, 12:37 p.m.

On the Woman\u2019s Hour Power List this year, sports reporter Fiona Tomas joins Nuala to discuss the change in kits for the England Women\u2019s football team and her work as a journalist.\nClimate justice activist Mikaela Loach took the UK government to court for giving tax breaks to fossil fuel companies. Her urgent new book \u2018It\u2019s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World\u2019 makes the case for tackling the climate crisis in tandem with other inequalities, offering a more hopeful future through practical action. \nWomen affected by the state pension age changes have scored what's been hailed as a major victory in their legal challenge for more compensation. \nThe Government watchdog conceded that part of the investigation into how increases to the state pension age were communicated was flawed and must be reconsidered. The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign represents the 3.6 million women who, in lots of cases, only got 12 months' notice of a six year increase to their State Pension age. Angela Madden, the chair of WASPI joins Nuala.\nIn the next in our series about narcissistic mothers we hear the story of a woman we are calling 'Scarlett'. She cut off all contact with the mother she believes is a narcissist and has no regrets. \nAlison Kinnaird was rejected by Edinburgh Art School when she applied as a teenager. Now she\u2019s one of the world\u2019s leading glass artists \u2013 and says that rejection was the best thing that ever happened to her. She joins Nuala to explain why and to talk about some of the remarkable things she\u2019s created.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern\nProducer: Lucinda Montefiore