Belarus, Domestic Violence and Terrorism, Instagram pictures, Anna Whitehouse

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It's a year today since the disputed elections in Belarus. They sparked unrest because the election was widely believed to have been rigged in favour of Alexander Lukashenko, who's held power since 1994. Three women joined forces to challenge Alexander Lukashenko. One of the woman - Maria Kolesnikova - is now in prison and facing trial. Maria’s sister, Tatyana, speaks to Emma on the anniversary of the election.

New research appears to show that extremist attackers are often united, whatever their ideology, by a significant history of domestic violence whether as perpetrators or victims. Joan Smith is an author, journalist and the co-chair of the mayor of London’s Violence Against Women and Girls board. In the last year she has been part of Project Starlight, a government-led investigation to further understand the motivations of those who behave in this way.

Have you adopted a special pose for photos to make all your pictures instantly Instagram ready? Do you do a flamingo, a street star or a coy pose? Emma is joined by Michaela Efford, a fashion influencer photographer, to tell us what it takes to make influencers look effortlessly cool and how you can do the same.

Anna Whitehouse was one of the first parenting influencers. Called Mother Pukka, she had hundreds of thousands of followers looking at her pictures and comments on family life. But in her new book Underbelly – she explores the darker sides of social media and admits she shared aspects of her personal life that she wished she hadn’t.

Presented by Emma Barnett Produced by Frankie Tobi

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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.
0:10.6	Hello and welcome to today's programme.
0:12.8	From today in Scotland, almost all Covid restrictions have been removed,
0:16.9	but there still seems to be some of the same residents as there is in England
0:20.6	regarding ending working from home, which has blown up into a row this morning
0:24.6	because an unnamed Cabinet Minister has said that those civil servants who refuse
0:28.2	to return to the office should be paid less.
0:31.1	We don't know who this is, but the unnamed Minister has told the Daily Mail that it is unfair
0:36.0	that those who work from home should get the same benefits as those commuting in
0:40.5	and with those costs associated. There is concern from some in government,
0:44.4	it seems, over the very slow return to offices by the civil service and further afield,
0:49.6	as most restrictions have now gone. But what do you make of this?
0:54.0	One person who has gone on the record, former Conservatives leader,
0:56.6	Sir Ian Duncan Smith, said last night that civil servants need to get off their
1:00.1	backsides and get back into the office and they need to do it pretty quickly,
1:04.3	and that the office is more creative and fosters better mental health.
1:08.7	It's understood that there has been a struggle to persuade civil servants to return to their
1:12.4	desks for only a day a week. But the government on the record this morning,
1:17.4	as opposed to an unnamed Cabinet Minister, has struck a more conciliatory tone.
1:21.6	Here's what quasi-quarting, the business secretary who's hearing in the news about the climate,
1:25.2	has had to say on this issue this morning on Sky News.
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