Author Kamila Shamsie. People smugglers. Family WhatsApp Group.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In her new novel "Best Of Friends" the award winning writer Kamila Shamasie explores the personal and political in Karachi in 1988 and London now. Fourteen year old Maryam and Zahra have been friends for 40 years but can they ever really know each other? Tonight's File on 4 will highlight the shortcomings of the Police and the National Referral Mechanism – the government pathway set up to provide financial, emotional and legal support as well as access to safe accommodation to victims of trafficking – and reveal how British survivors are being let down by the system. Emma talks to reporter Annabel Deas and we hear from a woman we're calling "Isobel" who is currently at risk of trafficking and lives in fear of her life. She was last trafficked earlier this year when she was gang raped and badly beaten by a gang who have abused her for over a decade. Her abuse began when she was 13 years old. Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell Photo credit; Alex von Tunzelman

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0:00.0	That's all for today's woman's hour. Thank you so much for your time.
0:03.3	Join us again for the next one.
0:05.0	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:07.1	And while you are kind enough to listen and many of you engage with the programme by messaging us,
0:13.2	today I wanted to ask about the other space that may exist in your life to discuss your views,
0:17.3	the political, the personal, the space where perhaps you share milestones and logistics,
0:22.2	the Family WhatsApp group.
0:23.9	I can almost hear the collective groan and response from some of you at the
0:27.3	nearest mention of these groups. If you love yours or you don't have a group messaging
0:32.6	function with your clan, worry not, a journalist is on hand to tell us what she's learned by even just
0:36.7	hearing the names of these digital gatherings. If you are part of one, has it brought you closer
0:42.1	or driven you further apart? What is yours called?
0:45.4	One of ours, the unpartner's office called Bank Holiday Shindig from that bank holiday a long time ago,
0:49.6	where we went away and it's never changed. What do you love? What do you love about it?
0:54.9	As anyone left, that's also quite a dramatic moment. Perhaps you have, say here,
1:00.6	today on Woman's Hour with me what you want that you can't say in your own Family WhatsApp group.
1:06.3	And I'll just remind you at this point, your messages can be anonymous.
1:10.6	Text me here on 84844, text will be charged at your standard message rate on social,
1:15.3	at BBC Woman's Hour or email us or send a WhatsApp message on 0300 100 144 4.
1:22.6	Also on today's programme, an increase into an insight rather into the increasing number of
1:27.9	Russian women taking to the streets to protest Putin's conscription orders and the war in Ukraine.
1:33.5	The author, Carmela Shamze on her new book Best of Friends and the unique pains and pleasures
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