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Woman's Hour

Barbara Lisicki & Ruth Madeley, US basketball player Brittney Griner, Red Nose Day, Inclusive Britain, Native children in the US

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Brittney Griner is 6 foot 9. She's an American basketball player, some say she's the greatest female basketball player of all time and she is currently being detained in Russia on drug charges that could carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Overnight Russian courts have extended her detention for two more months. All this while tensions between Russia and the States remain tense and her family worry she may be used as a political pawn. Molly McElwee, the Telegraph's Women's Sports reporter explains. To mark Red Nose Day Ena Miller visits a Comic Relief supported project helping survivors of domestic abuse. At Tower House Horses they use equine assisted learning to help women improve their mental health and recover their confidence. A woman we are calling Sophie tells her story and Susie, one of the co-founders of the project, explains how horses help women who have been through trauma. Yesterday the government set out its plans to address racial disparities in the UK with changes to policing, health and education. Inclusive Britain: the government response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities sets out 70 plans including ones to tackle the differences in maternal health to ones referring to police powers. There also includes a plan to get a diverse panel of historians to, as the report puts it, ‘develop a new knowledge rich History Curriculum by 2024 exploring Britain’s historical past’. But how would that actually work in practice? Kendra Mylnechuk Potter was adopted into a white family and raised with no knowledge of her Native background. A new film 'Daughter of a Lost Bird' currently showing at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival follows Kendra as she connects with her birth mother April, also a Native adoptee, and discovers her Lummi homelands in Washington state. Her story has parallels with many of those children affected by the 1958 Indian Adoption project, where Native children in the US were removed from their families and placed in white homes, dubbed by some as' cultural genocide'. In the late1970s the Indian Child Welfare Act came into force which prioritised keeping native Indian children within their own tribes. Anita speaks to Kendra and to the filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney. The history of civil rights changed when Barbara Lisicki met Alan Holdsworth. The two were disabled cabaret performers in the 1980s when they met, fell in love and founded the disabled people’s Direct Action Network (DAN). They became the driving force behind the campaign that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act. A new BBC Two drama, Then Barbara Met Alan, tells their story. We hear from the real-life Barbara Lisicki, and Ruth Madeley, the actor who plays her. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Molly McElwee Interviewed Guest: Susan Little Interviewed Guest: Dr Angelina Osborne Interviewed Guest: Stella Dadzie Interviewed Guest: Brooke Pepion Swaney Interviewed Guest: Kendra Mylnechuk Potter Interviewed Guest: Ruth Madeley Interviewed Guest: Barbara Lisicki Photo Credit: BBC/Dragonfly

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.5

Stories.

0:11.5

We're going to hear lots of stories today.

0:14.4

Stories of how women have changed the course of history.

0:17.8

Disability rights activist Barbara Lissicki has had her remarkable story made into a brilliant

0:23.5

new drama she'll be long to tell us about the struggle to get rights rather than charity.

0:29.0

We're also going to hear Kendra's story.

0:31.2

She's a subject of a new documentary where she traces her birth mother.

0:35.0

Kendra is Native American but was adopted by a white family as a baby and through the

0:39.3

course of the film she learns not only her birth mother's story but also about her Native

0:44.2

American ancestry and discovers a huge extended family.

0:48.4

Now stories of our past, shapers and grounders and can inform how we view the world.

0:54.4

But how and what history do we tell, particularly in schools?

0:59.1

A new race report came out yesterday which states, we will ensure that how our past is taught

1:04.0

in schools encourages all pupils whatever their ethnicity to feel an authentic sense of belonging

1:09.4

to a multi-racial UK.

1:11.8

So how do you do that?

1:12.8

And what stories do you tell?

1:14.3

I'll be discussing that shortly in the show.

1:16.7

And of course as always I want to hear from you.

1:19.2

Your comments on any of the subjects covered in the next hour are warmly welcomed but also

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