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Vivianne Miedema of the Netherlands and Arsenal has been crowned the winner of 大象传媒 Women's Footballer of the Year 2021. The annual award from the 大象传媒 World Service is voted for by football fans from around the world. She is the all-time leading scorer in the FA WSL (women鈥檚 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 Britain鈥檚 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, it鈥檚 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 don鈥檛 often hear about adoptions that break down, but last week former 大象传媒 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 son鈥檚 鈥渆xtremely challenging鈥� behaviour and that she was 鈥渇urious about the lack of support for adoptive parents鈥� 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