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Woman's Hour

Emily Ratajkowski, Republicanism in Barbados, Josephine Baker

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Emily Ratajkowski is an American model, entrepreneur & writer. She rocketed to fame aged 21 when she took part in Robin Thicke’s music video, Blurred Lines. At the time Emily argued that the provocative display of her body represented a form of feminist empowerment. In her first book, My Body, she argues something more nuanced.

The chemist Boots is in the firing line from campaigners. For Black Friday, Boots halved the price of the morning-after-pill and now campaigners want the reduced price to become permanent. Emma is joined by journalist Rose Stokes & Diana Johnson, Labour MP. Yesterday was big news for the Caribbean island of Barbados, as it cuts ties with the British Crown to become a republic. The country has sworn in its first president - Dame Sandra Mason. Celestina Olulode reporter for BBC World Service, joins Emma from Barbados.

89-year-old barrister Margaret Owen OBE recently embarked on a 6-day hunger strike to raise awareness of the case of British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe. Margaret’s protest followed the 21-day hunger strike by Nazanin’s husband Richard Ratcliffe. She joins Emma to talk about the experience and what she wanted to achieve.

American-born French singer & dancer Josephine Baker is about to become the first black woman to be immortalised in the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris. She broke boundaries in the 1930s with performances mocking colonialism and became an international star. She was also a resistance fighter for France during World War II and had a role in the civil rights movement in the US. Research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Adjoa Osei joins Emma.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

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telly we share what we've been watching

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Fladiated.

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.0

First I'm going to start with an update as journalists were often brilliant when a story breaks,

0:44.8

but not quite as good at keeping with it and sharing what happens next.

0:48.5

You may remember last week we reported on the bizarre political situation in Sweden where only after seven hours

0:54.4

the country's first female Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson resigned.

0:58.6

Well now she is back in the job after another narrow vote by her colleagues so Sweden does in fact have its

1:04.6

first female Prime Minister for the second time.

1:08.0

Keeping with the theme of female leaders as the world's newest republic Barbados wakes up to a new dawn and future

1:14.4

having officially removed Her Majesty the Queen as its head of state last night we

1:18.9

hear how the country's first president a 72 year old woman by the name of Dame Sandra Mason, is being received.

1:25.8

A warning in that dispatch from Barbados, you will hear the beautiful sound of the ocean,

1:31.0

and I imagine pine for warmer climes. I certainly did while

1:34.6

having that conversation which you'll hear shortly. Today Josephine Baker the

1:38.8

American-born French performer famed in 1920s Paris is going to be the first black woman

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