Actor Gemma Chan. Who is Princess Haya? Rediscovering picture books. Summer wardrobe staples, the kaftan.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Gemma Chan talks about her role in the Channel 4 drama "I Am Hannah" - a woman in her mid-thirties struggling with the pressure to settle down and start a family.
The ruler of Dubai and his estranged wife, Princess Haya, are in court this week battling over the welfare of their children. Princess Haya fled Dubai earlier this year and has been reportedly living in hiding in London. We hear from Louise Callaghan, Middle East Correspondent for the Sunday Times, who's been following the Dubai family saga for the past year, and BBC Law in Action’s Joshua Rozenberg who's been in court this week watching proceedings.
Do we take children’s picture books, lullabies and nursery rhymes as seriously as we should? The writer Clare Pollard says NO and explores in her new book " Fierce Bad Rabbits" the stories that meant the world to her as a child and how they represent women.
And the dress historian Amber Butchart has been finding out about the history of some of the summer wardrobe staples which get shoved into suitcases every year, today - the kaftan
Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest: Gemma Chan Guest: Clare Pollard Guest: Amber Butchart Guest: Louise Callaghan Guest: Joshua Rozenberg
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| 0:36.2 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the podcast for Wom-Sar, for Wednesday the 31st of July. |
| 0:43.0 | Princess Hire, the estranged wife of the ruler of Dubai, appeared in the High Court in London yesterday, |
| 0:50.0 | asking for their children to be made wards of the court and for herself to be protected from molestation. |
| 0:56.0 | Who is she and what is she hoping to achieve? |
| 1:00.0 | In our series on the staples you have in your summer wardrobe the origin of the |
| 1:04.9 | kaftan and fierce bad rabbits the poet and playwright Claire Pollard looks behind |
| 1:10.9 | the stories in some of our best-known children's books. |
| 1:15.5 | You may have already seen the first two of Channel 4 series featuring women. |
| 1:21.2 | Vicky McClure took the lead role in I am Nicola last night. |
| 1:25.0 | Samantha Morton was I am Kirsty and next Tuesday the final drama in the series will be |
| 1:31.0 | I am Hannah. |
| 1:32.0 | Where Gemma Chan plays a woman in her mid 30s |
| 1:35.4 | meeting men online but with no obvious desire for a permanent partner but her |
| 1:41.0 | mother is clearly quite keen for her to settle down and not leave the |
| 1:46.1 | possibility of grandchildren too late. You can have everything, |
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