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Woman's Hour

Emeli Sandé, Depp v Heard, Afghanistan

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Emeli Sandé is one of Britain’s most successful songwriters. With 19 million singles sold including three number one singles, 6 million albums and four BRIT awards (including Best Female twice!). Emeli joins Emma to discuss her music, and has a specially recorded version of There Isn’t Much – a track written with Naughty Boy and Shaq, from her new album Let’s Say For Instance. Over the weekend in Afghanistan the Taliban ordered that all women must wear a burqa in public. It's the latest blow to women's rights in the country since the Taliban took power in August last year. Yalda Hakim is an International Correspondent for the BBC and spoke to us about this development. What is it like to run a fashion magazine? We ask Kenya Hunt, who became the first black Editor-in-Chief at Elle UK when she took over the role in March. With print readership in decline, and the fashion industry reeling from the pandemic, how does she plan to keep women reading magazines? Depp v Heard. It’s the court case that has gripped not just America but the whole world. The actor Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife Amber Heard for defamation over an article in which she said she was a victim of abuse. The BBC’s Holly Honderich joins Emma to discuss this very public trial. Anna Kent is a humanitarian aid worker, NHS nurse and midwife. She was 26 when she joined Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) for her first assignment in South Sudan in 2007. She has subsequently worked as a midwife across the world including Ethiopia, Haiti, Bangladesh and the UK. She has now written a book, Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce Photo credit: Olivia Lifungula

Transcript

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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.

0:09.8

Good morning and welcome to the programme as Ukrainians endure the 75th day of fighting

0:15.2

and Russian bombardment.

0:17.0

How have certain songs and tracks brought things to life for you in a way perhaps other things

0:22.1

could not?

0:23.1

When is music cut through a marked major moment in your life, the national agenda, the international

0:28.2

agenda, a particular story?

0:30.6

What was it and why?

0:32.1

And when is it connected you to people and told stories in only the way it can?

0:37.4

I'll of course ask Emily for some of hers perhaps as well, but do get in touch with your

0:41.4

take on this.

0:42.4

Text me here at Woman's Hour on 84844.

0:45.0

Text will be charged with your standard message rate or on social media where at BBC

0:48.5

Woman's Hour or email me through our website.

0:52.2

But also on today's programme, I want to pause, shine a light and analyse the latest

0:56.6

orders directed at Afghan women.

0:59.6

Over the weekend Afghan women have been ordered to wear the burker by the Taliban for the

1:03.6

first time in decades.

1:05.8

Any woman who refuses to comply and ignores official warnings to male members of her family

1:10.8

could see a male guardian jailed for three days, more detail and analysis on that to come.

1:17.1

We'll also bring you the latest on the Amber herd and Johnny Depp trial and stories from

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