Digital sisterhood; Christina Lamb; Learning to swim

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Friendship can be one of the most powerful and important aspects of any woman’s life. We explore what sisterhood means to different women at different points in their lives. Kelechi Okafor, Danielle Dash and Seyi Akiwowo all met online. They all have large social media followings and talk about the importance of digital sisterhood.

Foreign correspondent Christina Lamb has reported on wars for over thirty years. She has now written a major book, Our Bodies Their Battlefield, exposing how in modern warfare, rape and sexual violence are used to humiliate, terrify and carry out ethnic cleansing.

Last week saw the launch of the Black Swimming Association, which aims to turn around the fact that 95% of black adults and 80% of black children in England do not swim. It’s a trend echoed more widely in the UK – with Swim England reporting that almost a quarter of all children leave primary school without being about to swim 25 metres. So what are the barriers to learning to swim? And how can they be overcome? Jane speaks to Carina White from Dope Black Mums and Ali Beckman, the technical director and lead teacher of the swim school, Puddleducks.

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0:41.0	Hi this is Jane Garvey and you have downloaded Woman's Hour from podcasts. of The Sunday Times is one of our guests this morning. She'll be talking about her incredibly
0:54.3	important new book about the impact of sexual violence on women in war. Not easy to read at all, but
1:01.6	absolutely vital that we all talk about this and try to
1:05.2	understand it and its consequences so Christina Lamb on the program today will also
1:10.6	celebrate the digital sisterhood why it's so important to support each other online
1:16.2	and we're going to talk too about when ideally twins should be born but we are going to start
1:22.2	with the coronavirus and with the Royal College of
1:25.9	obstetricians and gynecologists and the president of the organisation Dr Edward Morris
1:31.9	joins us this morning.
1:33.0	Edward, just explain what any woman who's pregnant needs to be aware of right now.
1:39.0	Good morning, Jane, yes, thank you.
1:42.0	So pregnant women do not need to be concerned that they're more likely to be infected.
1:48.0	It's important that they should be reassured by this fact. The difference with pregnant women is that they tend to
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