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Woman's Hour

Fashion Revolution Week: 6th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today is the 6th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, where over 1,000 garment workers died. Over half were women. Fashion Revolution Week wants to raise awareness about where and how our clothes are made - and what it’s doing to the planet. Fashion industry insiders Alice Wilby and Bernice Pan explain why sustainability needs to be more than just a trend. A home for unmarried mothers and babies in Tuam in Galway was run by Bon Secours Sisters from 1925 to 1961. Nearly 800 babies died there and when it was discovered a few years ago that they’d been buried in a secretive, undignified way it caused widespread outrage in Ireland and beyond. Since then an official investigation into what happened at 18 mother and baby homes across Ireland began, and is ongoing. Last week ‘The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes’ released its latest report. This one – the fifth – focuses on how babies were buried at mother and baby homes, and part of it looked at another home called Bessborough in Cork. The BBC’s Deirdre Finnerty has been investigating. Why some women choose to become a solo parent using donor sperm and eggs and what they have learnt since making their decision. Jenni speaks to Genevieve Roberts, author of ‘Going Solo’ who has already become a mum using donor sperm and Beth who is using both donor sperm and egg and is pregnant with her first child. In Salt & Time, food writer Alissa Timoshkina transforms perceptions of the food of the former Soviet Union and in particular her home Siberia – the crossroads of Eastern European and Central Asian cuisine. Salt & Time contains recipes from the pre-revolutionary era and the Soviet days that are treated with a modern interpretation. Alissa joins Jenni in the studio to Cook the Perfect…Borsch. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Deirdre Finnerty Interviewed Guest: Alice Wilby Interviewed Guest: Dr Bernice Pan Interviewed Guest: Genevieve Roberts Interviewed Guest: Beth Interviewed Guest: Alissa Timoshkina

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BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's

0:07.3

R Podcast for Wednesday the 24th of April. Now six years ago more than a thousand

0:14.9

workers died in the Bangladeshi garment industry when their workplace collapsed.

0:19.7

Today in fashion revolution week how can you become a dedicated follower of

0:25.2

sustainable fashion. Going solo what persuades a woman to go is a loan

0:30.6

using sperm and eggs from donors and salt and time respites from a Russian

0:37.4

kitchen. Alyssa Timorskina cooks the perfect beetroot soup known as

0:43.0

Bosch. Now you may remember a couple of years ago we discussed the case of the

0:47.6

tomb babies nearly 800 had died at the Galway home for unmarried mothers and

0:53.9

offspring and it was run by the Bonsa Corps sisters from 1925 to 1961. There was

1:01.5

outrage in Ireland when it was discovered that the infants had been buried

1:05.5

secretly and without any respect and later this year the site will be

1:10.2

excavated officially. Well that discovery is led to an investigation into

1:15.3

other mother and baby homes 18 in all and the Commission of

1:19.6

Investigation has released its latest report. Part of it focused on a home

1:24.4

called Besbra in Cork. The BBC's didry finity has been to Besbra. What are the

1:31.6

main findings of the report? So Jenny the report found very high numbers of

1:36.4

death but very very little information about the number of about where the

1:42.8

children who have died in these homes are buried. It's thought that many are

1:46.5

buried in on mark graves. There's no records at all really for at least three of

1:50.6

the homes. In the case of Besbra where I went over 900 children died in this

1:56.3

home in the years it was opened but burial records are only available for 64

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