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Woman's Hour

Diane Dodds, Child Q and Stripsearch, Charlotte Mendelson, Cook for Ukraine

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The recent resignation of DUP First Minister, Paul Givan, from Stormont last month, has left people in Northern Ireland without a properly functioning government. On top of that, an election is coming - one that could bring massive political change if recent polls are to be believed. Leading unionist and DUP MLA Diane Dodds joins Emma on the programme to discuss Brexit, the Northern Ireland protocol and cooperation in Stormont. A damning new report has revealed how a black schoolgirl was strip searched by the Metropolitan Police while on her period after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The review conducted by City & Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership took place without another adult present at the girl's secondary school in Hackney in 2020. The report states that during the search the girls "intimate body parts" were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel. Emma speaks to Antoinette Bramble, Hackney's Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for children's services and Shabnam Chaudri, a former Detective Superintendent at the Metropolitan Police. Charlotte Mendelson's new books features the Hanrahans a big, arty family living in their bohemian North London home. Ray and Lucia are both artists, she has surrendered her career for his and their grown-up children seem dazzled by their outrageous, talented father. But, things are not as they seem and family secrets are bubbling under the surface. Charlotte joins Emma. Even in the face of war, food has a special power in bringing people together. Russian Chef Alissa Timoshkina and Ukrainian Chef Olia Hercules are best friends who have joined forces to set up Cook for Ukraine, a culinary campaign raising funds to support the humanitarian effort in Ukraine. They are encouraging people to celebrate Ukrainian and Eastern European culture by cooking traditional food. They join Emma Barnett to talk about their experiences as friends from opposing frontiers.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.3

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

0:10.0

On today's programme, as President Zelensky of Ukraine says peace talks with Russia are

0:14.4

beginning to sound more realistic.

0:16.8

At the same time, there are more airstrikes on Kiev.

0:19.6

I'm going to be talking to two women, best friends and chefs who live here in the UK,

0:23.9

one of whom is Ukrainian and the other Russian, about their campaign Cook for Ukraine.

0:28.8

But also about how friendships like theirs are working at the moment.

0:32.8

And of course, how their families back home are coping and what their viewpoints are.

0:37.2

But what friendships have you had across what perhaps some people would see or perceive

0:42.0

as divides?

0:43.4

What have they brought to your life?

0:45.0

What understanding?

0:46.0

What didn't you know that you now know and you wish others perhaps also could know?

0:50.2

Share with me here on Woman's Hour this morning, 84844.

0:53.2

That's the number you need to text me here.

0:54.8

On social media or at BBC Woman's Hour, why not email me?

0:57.8

Leave your stories or views throughout the programme via our website.

1:01.8

Also on today's programme, the author Charlotte Mendelssohn on artistic partnerships and

1:05.9

messy families as per her new book.

1:08.4

And the DUP's Michelle Dodds, as the political power struggles, continue in Northern Ireland.

1:14.5

But first, a damning new report has revealed how a black schoolgirl was stripped search by

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