For Sama, Brexit, Women and Science Fiction
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The journalist Waad Al Kateab documented her life on camera in war torn Aleppo, Syria. She tells us about her documentary and how she fell in love, married and had a baby daughter during the conflict.
We discuss intersectionality in feminist economics with Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson the Director of the UK Women’s Budget Group, Dr Zubaida Haque from the Runnymede Trust and Angela Matthews head of policy at the Business Disability Forum.
Adina Claire Acting Co-Chief Executive of Women’s Aid gives her reaction to the cricketer Geoffrey Boycott being knighted despite being convicted by a French court in 1998 for punching his partner.
In 1962 Claire Weekes an Australian GP published a book Self Help for Your Nerves in which she said she could cure panic, depression, sorrow, agoraphobia and anxiety. We discuss how her cures would be received today with Judith Hoare the author of ‘The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code’.
Marina Litvinenko and the actress who plays her MyAnna Buring, discuss the play A Very Expensive Poison. It follows the story of Alexander Litvinenko, Marina’s husband, who died in 2006 after being poisoned with polonium 210 in London.
Listeners give their reaction to how Brexit is affecting relationships with family and close friends with Amber, Ellie, Henry and Gabrielle Rifkind a conflict resolution specialist and psychotherapist.
As Margaret Attwood’s sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale – The Testaments is published, we discuss science fiction readers and writers with authors Mary Robinette Kowal and Temi Oh.
Presented by Jenni Murray Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane Thurlow
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good afternoon, as Geoffrey Boycott becomes Sir Geoffrey, |
| 0:10.0 | what does women's aid make of a man convicted of domestic violence receiving a knighthood? |
| 0:16.0 | A film called For Summer, |
| 0:19.0 | Wide Alcatine lived through and recorded the brutal siege of Aleppo. |
| 0:25.0 | Some of the feeling also which I can't protect my daughter, |
| 0:29.0 | I can't protect even myself, I can't really plan for tonight or for the next day. |
| 0:36.0 | It's all, you feel all the time that this life will be finished at any moment. |
| 0:42.0 | Dr Claire Weeks was an Australian GP. |
| 0:46.0 | Why is her biography called The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code? |
| 0:51.0 | As Margaret Outward publishes the testaments as a follow-up to the handmade stale, |
| 0:56.0 | what do we make of the understanding of the term science fiction? |
| 1:01.0 | There are lots of books that are famous that we now might describe a science fiction, |
| 1:05.0 | like 1984 is dystopian. |
| 1:07.0 | I think that Frankenstein is one of the first science fiction. |
| 1:10.0 | And whenever I'd suggest this to people, they'd go, |
| 1:12.0 | oh no, there's good books. |
| 1:14.0 | A very expensive poison is a play which traces the death by poisoning |
| 1:20.0 | of Alexander Littvinyenko. |
| 1:23.0 | I'll be talking to my Anna Boring who plays his wife Marina and to Marina herself. |
| 1:29.0 | And the B word, yes, Brexit, what did you have to say in a phone in about the emotional effects of the controversy on you, your friends and your family? |
| 1:41.0 | 30 years ago, Professor Kimberley Crenshaw invented the word intersectionality to describe |
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