Anna & Elizabeth, Fat, Slavery
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Anna & Elizabeth are a folk duo with a banjo, Virginia roots and a catalogue of traditional ballads, but their latest album, 'The Invisible Comes To Us' is much more than a classic folk record. They join Jenni to discuss creating music with geographical history, and working together despite a 500-mile distance.
21 million women and men are trapped in modern day slavery, estimates the charity Stopthetraffic.org. Of these, approximately 4.5 million are sexually exploited. Anna was one of them, snatched off a London street and taken to Ireland where she was raped, beaten and forced into prostitution. Her book Slave tells the story of what happened and she tells Jenni how she found the courage to fight back.
The BBC has been exploring attitudes to weight and healthy living in a series of programmes. Woman's Hour asked listeners 'How Does Fat Feel?' One listener who we will call Jules responded, saying she is 54 and calls herself fat. Until 10 years ago she was an average weight, but an underactive thyroid, steroids, anti-depressants which stimulated her appetite, secret eating and just eating too much too fast all contributed to a large weight gain. Ena Miller went to visit her.
Presenter: Jenni Murray.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
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| 0:36.0 | Hello Jenny Mary welcoming you to the Woman's Hour Podcast for Thursday, the 6th of June. |
| 0:42.0 | Now today, the 6th of June. Now today the 6th of June is the actual 75th anniversary of Day Day. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll hear from the Chelsea pensioner Helen Andrews about the work she did at Bletchley Park. |
| 0:54.0 | In coaching week in the run-up to the Women's Football World Cup, |
| 0:58.4 | what drew Kim Johnson to coach Rugby and Louisa Arnold |
| 1:01.9 | to Project 500 coaching coaching women who coach. |
| 1:05.0 | And as we discover in today's serial, the Salvation Army has an important role in saving victims from modern day slavery. We'll discuss how they're helping women escape to safety. |
| 1:17.0 | Now the latest novel by the acclaimed writer Elif Schaffac is called 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world. |
| 1:27.0 | It tells the story of Leila who's been working as a prostitute in Istanbul. |
| 1:32.0 | She's been murdered and dumped in a rubbish bin. In those 10 minutes |
| 1:36.8 | and 38 seconds after her death, her mind continues to look back on her life. She was the daughter of her father's second wife, |
| 1:44.8 | raised by his first, and its sense and flavours that come to her most readily. |
| 1:51.0 | As the tastes of lemon and sugar melted on her tongue, so too her feelings |
| 1:56.1 | dissolved into confusion. Years later she would come to think of this moment as |
| 2:01.4 | the first time she realized that things were not always what they seemed. |
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