100 Women History Hour

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A special edition of the programme remembering some of the women that history has overlooked. From women warriors to women scientists. From rural women, to factory workers we bring you the stories of women who made a contribution to history - and who deserve to be remembered.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the History Hour Podcast with me Rebecca
0:04.6	Kespi as part of our 100 women's season here on the BBC World Service all week
0:10.1	we've been revisiting stories of extraordinary women who haven't always been
0:14.4	recognized in the history books as perhaps they should have been. As usual, we'll
0:18.9	bring you some of the gems from this week's collection of witness, but also
0:22.2	today we're responding to your
0:23.8	suggestions of women you think have been overlooked by history and you've come up
0:28.1	with some fantastic ideas, many on the subjects of science and technology.
0:33.0	Science is exciting.
0:35.0	I mean I don't think people understand that.
0:37.0	People say why are you interested in science?
0:40.0	But it just is exciting to find out new things to discover how bits of puzzles fit together.
0:49.0	More on some pioneering female scientist to come and discovering the groundbreaking
0:55.1	composer from Wales who wrote around 200 pieces of music which are only now
1:00.4	coming to light a hundred years after her death.
1:04.0	It's extraordinary and I feel very privileged that I'm the first pianist to record
1:12.0	you know this wonderful music. I would say that she
1:15.0	had an extraordinary talent. The wonderful music of Morpheth Owen coming up later And let me introduce you to our special guests
1:25.4	joining us for the whole program today. Amrita Schodhan is here. She's a senior
1:30.8	teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London,
1:35.2	specialising in South Asia and the Middle East.
1:38.0	Hello to you, Amrita.
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