Folk singer Cara Dillon, Diane Abbott and racist abuse, Haiti
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Folk singer Cara Dillon joins Emma Barnett to discuss her book and a new album – Coming Home – which explores themes of family, identity and home.
Host of the UK’s first ever maths summit, mathmetician Anne-Marie Imafidon talks about hosting the UK's first ever maths summit and the importance of the subject for business.
Seven out of 10 candidates who've been selected to stand for the Conservative Party at the next election are men, according to new data gleaned by the journalist Michael Crick. We speak to him and the Charlotte Carew Pole, the Director of Women2Win, which aims to get more women into politics.
Journalist Monique Clesca on the latest situation in Haiti, where powerful gangs have killed thousands and are using rape to "instil fear"
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Engineer: Gayl Gordon
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| 0:58.0 | Good morning and welcome to the program. Who gets heard and why and how women's voices are heard or not is |
| 1:05.6 | going to form one of our discussions today regarding remarks allegedly made about |
| 1:09.6 | the MP Diane Abbott by one of the Conservative Party's biggest donors and we're going to reflect on how those comments described as racist by |
| 1:17.8 | the Prime Minister have affected black women in Britain this week. We'll get |
| 1:22.1 | to that very shortly indeed. |
| 1:23.9 | But linked in some ways is the revelation |
| 1:26.2 | that seven in 10 candidates picked by local conservative |
| 1:29.4 | associations ahead of the next election are men. so far. What's going on? Where are the women? |
| 1:36.8 | The person who crunched the numbers will be here. We will also take you to Haiti and hear |
| 1:41.2 | how women are being directly affected by the recent |
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