Freida Pinto in Love Sonia

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by real life events, a new film ‘Love Sonia’ is the story of a young girl from a small village in India who finds herself caught up in the global sex trafficking industry. One of the stars of the film is Freida Pinto. She joins Jenni to discuss. The first leader of the Women’s Equality Party is standing down. Sophie Walker has been doing the job since 2015. In 2017 her party published a manifesto full of feminist policies from which she openly invited all the mainstream parties to steal. She has said repeatedly that she wants to change the way we do politics. And yesterday, she sought to change it saying that “sometimes in order to lead, you have to get out of the way”. She explains what she meant and why she’s decided to go now. Basma Khalifa was born in Saudi Arabia, but grew up in Northern Ireland before moving to London as a stylist. In a new BBC 3 documentary, she explores whether it’s a place she could consider living in again. Basma and Director Jessica Kelly discuss their experience. An Irish couple say they've been denied an abortion in an Irish hospital even though their unborn baby had a fatal foetal abnormality. They were told by doctors to wait for a miscarriage. Their situation has been brought up in the Irish Parliament, with their consent, and it’s raising questions about whether Irish hospitals are ready, or willing, to implement the new law on abortion. There was a referendum last Spring in which the Irish people voted 66.4% in favour of Repealing the Eighth Amendment, which was a law restricting access to abortion. We hear the facts. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Sophie Walker Interviewed Guest: Freida Pinto Interviewed Guest: Basma Khalifa Interviewed Guest: Jessica Kelly Interviewed Guest: Dr Peter Boylan

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.7	Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to Weddenstay's edition of the Woman's Hour Podcast. Love, Sonja,
0:11.7	is a film made in India that pulls no punches on the horrors of the global sex trafficking industry.
0:18.9	Frida Pinto, who made her name in Slumdog Millionaire, explains why she was keen to take part.
0:25.6	The new law on abortion in the Irish Republic as a woman is refused determination and her
0:31.2	case is raised in Parliament how confident a doctor is about making the decision to proceed or not.
0:38.7	And a Saudi Arabia seems to become more woman-friendly as an environment. A young woman
0:45.0	who was born there but raised in Northern Ireland visits her aunts to see if she could live there.
0:51.3	Will she or won't she? Now the woman's equality party was founded in 2015 and Sophie Walker has
0:58.2	been its leader since the beginning. In 2017 her party published an election manifesto full
1:06.0	of feminist policies including a constant plan for free child care from nine months to school
1:11.5	age and heavy investment in health and social care. The leader openly invited all the mainstream
1:18.1	parties to steal their ideas. She said repeatedly that she wants to change the way we do politics.
1:25.5	Well yesterday she announced her plan to step down saying sometimes in order to lead you have
1:32.3	to get out of the way. What does she mean by that? What I'm doing is challenging traditional
1:40.5	rules and challenging traditional ideas of leadership. The women's equality party was launched
1:48.1	by a group of women as a collective of women working together to find and support the women who
1:57.2	felt that politics was not for them who felt that they couldn't be involved. It didn't speak to them.
2:03.2	It wasn't relevant to them. And I think we have made extraordinary progress as a party. I'm
2:10.3	incredibly proud of the gains that we add every time we run an election. The impact that our
2:14.7	policies have had on the other parties, the many thousands of women who have come forward already.
2:20.1	But I think that there is a point when as a leader you have to consider other forms of leadership.
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