Afghanistan, Adoption, Lesley Manville
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We continue reporting on what's happening to women and children in Afghanistan. We hear from our BBC corespondent in Kabul, Secunder Kermani. Also Larissa Brown who's Defence Editor at The Times tells us about women soldiers in Afghanistan, and we speak to Zarghuna Kargar who used to present Afghan Woman's Hour and this week found herself translating a Taliban press conference. It was her voice telling us what a Taliban spokesman said.
We hear from Andrea Leadsom, MP who's the government's Early Years Adviser.
Two women who've adopted talk to us about the ups and downs.
And we've also got Lesley Manville on talking about her new TV drama called I Am, which is about a woman called Maria who's 60 and bored.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.8 | Hello and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:12.8 | With every day that passes the relief operation on the ground in Afghanistan becomes more urgent |
| 0:18.1 | and now there are reports of desperate women throwing babies over razor wire to |
| 0:22.6 | British soldiers into their compound at Kabul airport in the hope that their children can |
| 0:27.6 | escape the Taliban. |
| 0:29.2 | The attention has turned to efforts to avoid a humanitarian crisis but also who is to blame |
| 0:35.5 | and how have the Afghanistan people found themselves in this position. |
| 0:39.9 | The Prime Minister recalled Parliament yesterday and faced criticism from all sides to the |
| 0:44.5 | government's response, including this blistering speech from the former Prime Minister to |
| 0:49.0 | Reza May. |
| 0:51.1 | Was our intelligence really so poor? Was our understanding of the Afghan government so weak |
| 0:58.4 | was our knowledge of the position on the ground so inadequate? |
| 1:03.8 | Or did we really believe this? Or did we just feel that we had to follow the United States |
| 1:10.0 | and hope that on a wing and a prayer it would be alright on the night? |
| 1:13.5 | because the reality is, if I may just make this point, the reality is that as long as |
| 1:20.1 | this a time limit was given and dates were given for withdrawal, all the Taliban had to |
| 1:25.5 | do was to ensure there were sufficient problems for the Afghan Government not to be able |
| 1:29.7 | to have full control of the country and then just sit and wait. |
| 1:35.5 | The former Prime Minister Theresa May talking in the Commons yesterday. Today we are going |
| 1:39.7 | to hear from someone in touch with Afghan female fighters, the so-called Sandhurst and |
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