Pepsi & Shirlie, Zoe Billingham, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, The ethics and laws around surrogacy

After many years as members of Wham!, Pepsi & Shirlie broke out to conquer the charts as a pop duo. They discuss the challenges of making it in the male-dominated 1980s music industry, juggling pop careers with motherhood and reinventing themselves. Reaction to details of Sarah Everard's final hours. Emma hears from listener and journalist Kat Brown. Zoë Billingham is standing down today after 12 years in her role at Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. She has taken a lead on annual domestic abuse inspections since 2013, and this month published a damning report into the way an ‘epidemic’ of violence against women and girls is being handled – and calling for the prevention of these crimes to be taken as seriously by police and Government as counterterrorism. The report was commissioned by the Home Secretary Priti Patel in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder in March. Since it was released almost two weeks ago Sabina Nessa, Terri Harris and her two children John Paul and Lacey, and Connie Gent have all been killed. Zoë joins Emma for her final interview. Surrogacy in England and Wales has quadrupled over the past decade and enjoys a much higher profile thanks to celebrity parents such as Elton John, Kim Kardashian and Tom Daley. But despite it becoming an increasingly accepted option for those wishing to have a family, the laws regulating surrogacy and the rights of those involved haven't changed in the UK since the mid-1980s. The Law Commission is now in the process of reviewing those laws for the modern day. Bioethicist Dr Herjeet Marway from the University of Birmingham and lawyer Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn from the University of Cambridge discuss the many sticking points in surrogacy's evolving legal and ethical picture. Presented by Emma Barnett Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel