4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.3 | Good morning, welcome to the programme. |
0:12.4 | One of my guests today told her husband she was just going out for a quick bit of shopping, |
0:16.8 | but ended up driving 250 miles away to the Polish border and returning with a car full of |
0:21.8 | women and children refugees. |
0:24.4 | L.A.R. Mulska, a Polish entrepreneur, now runs a very new programme, indeed, called Women Take |
0:29.9 | the Wheel Initiative in Poland, where she lives and, of course, where she's now doing these |
0:34.9 | drives. |
0:35.9 | And a bit to encourage more women, not just men, to be at the Polish-Ukrainian border |
0:40.3 | to help those fleeing to safety. |
0:42.4 | It's now been five weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine and Ella describes what she did as |
0:48.0 | a spontaneous action. |
0:50.2 | What have you been able to do in response to the reality Ukrainians are now facing? |
0:55.0 | If anything, have you talked about it and not been sure what to do or if there is anything |
0:59.7 | to do, or perhaps you found yourself wanting to do things but you're not in a position |
1:03.7 | to do anything at the moment? |
1:05.7 | Of course, if you are one of the 150,000 members of the public who have been able to offer |
1:10.5 | accommodation to refugees in this country, a story in today's timesmaids makes for |
1:15.3 | dispiriting readings, say the least, citing home office sources, the paper reports fewer than |
1:20.3 | one in ten applications to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in British homes have been approved, |
1:25.9 | fewer than one in ten. |
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