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Woman's Hour

Dawn French, Laura Linney, Israel-Gaza conflict, Unconventional living

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Nearly 350,000 people have been displaced in Gaza, since Israel launched retaliatory air strikes and created a blockade of the area. In Gaza's hospitals, where thousands of people are being treated, power is running out. Women and children are chief among those affected. Emma speaks to Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Najla Shawa, a humanitarian worker who lives in the west side of Gaza City with her family and Adele Raemer, a grandmother in Israel.

Emmy winning actor, Laura Linney, joins Emma Barnett to discuss her new film, The Miracle Club, in which she stars alongside other film icons, Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates. Emma asks her how much she misses playing Wendy Byrde in the much-acclaimed long-running TV series Ozark.

'My Boyfriend Lives with with My Husband,' was the intriguing headline of an article in the Guardian newspaper recently; While Caroline and the children she shares with her husband Niel live in Cheltenham, Niel is living with Caroline's boyfriend in Scotland. Both Caroline and Niel describe their unconventional family living arrangements to Emma and explain how it came about and why it works for them.

Dawn French has been making people laugh as a writer, comedian and actor, for more than 30 years. Her celebrated shows include French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley, and Jam and Jerusalem. She joins Emma to discuss her new book about the hilarious gaffes that she made in life, as part of her one-woman mission to celebrate what it means to be gloriously, messily human, rather than striving for Instagram-style-perfection.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Steve Greenwood

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, let me ask you, sir.

0:03.8

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0:06.1

Me and Ben Brick are back with a blast.

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0:13.8

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I'm trying to make sense of the present day, join me on this journey by pressing play.

0:23.8

Have you heard George's podcast, Chapter 4?

0:27.2

Listen on BBC Sound.

0:29.4

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0:35.5

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

0:40.3

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:42.7

As Israel's siege of Gaza continues, the Israeli government has said it will not end until

0:48.1

Israeli hostages who were seized at the weekend by Hamas are released.

0:52.8

That means no electricity, no water and no fuel.

0:57.0

On today's Woman's Hour, we are continuing to focus on the impact on women caught up

1:01.0

in this conflict.

1:02.0

Shortly, you will hear from the BBC's chief international correspondent, Least You Set.

1:07.2

Yesterday, we heard from Adele Raymer, an Israeli woman, about trying to survive a Hamas

1:12.0

attack on her home in her kibbutz and how she nearly lost her grandchildren.

1:16.8

She has now fled her home.

1:19.3

Today, we will hear from a Palestinian woman in Gaza, Najla Shawar, who was trying to

1:24.0

stay safe in her home with her two young daughters and the neighbours who have lost their

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