Greenham Common, Afghan Refugee Resettlement, Sarah Rainsford, Rebecca Welch
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Forty years ago this week, 36 people from a campaign group called Women for Life on Earth marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury in Berkshire to protest against the British government allowing US nuclear missiles on British soil. They stayed there for almost 20 years. Last week another group set-out from Cardiff to follow the route of the original protesters. We speak to Rebecca Mordan and Sue Say live from their walk.
For the last few weeks on Woman's Hour, we've been following the desperate efforts of those trying to flee Afghanistan. As the government sets out details of what it is calling ‘Operation Warm Welcome’ - its scheme to resettle recently arrived Afghan refugees- we hear from Louise Calvey of Refugee Action, on what is currently being done currently, and what we can do to help.
Sarah Rainsford - BBC Moscow correspondent, has been living in and reporting on Russia for over two decades. On the 10th August, she was told that she was being barred indefinitely 'for the protection of the security of Russia' - and allowed into the country for the sole purpose of packing up her life and leaving. But why her? And what chance, if any, does she now have of returning? She joins Emma to discuss.
Rebecca Welch has become the first female referee to be added to the English Football League's national group list for men's football. She became the first woman to officiate an EFL match in April when she took charge of Harrogate's 2-0 League Two defeat to Port Vale, but said it was never her plan to officiate, only playing football for fun. She speaks to Emma live.
Presented by Emma Barnett Produced by Frankie Tobi
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| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to today's programme, where we're going to discuss just that. |
| 0:41.0 | Wellcomes. What does a warm welcome actually mean? |
| 0:44.7 | The government has named the Afghan evacuation, |
| 0:47.0 | which has seen 15,000 Afghans arrive here |
| 0:49.4 | in the last fortnight, 8,000 of them |
| 0:51.7 | former British government employees, Operation |
| 0:54.3 | Warm Welcome. Presently 10,000 Afghan refugees are in quarantine hotels as part |
| 1:00.5 | of what a minister has described this morning as the largest evacuation scheme in living memory. |
| 1:05.6 | On today's program you're going to hear how to help, if you want to, if you feel you can, |
| 1:10.1 | what to do, crucially what not to do, but also as the government announces additional funds to help |
| 1:15.6 | people settle and build a new life we're going to get to grips with some of the |
| 1:19.7 | challenges. What does a warm welcome look like from where you're listening? 84844 is the number |
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| 1:35.1 | In terms of the images we've seen in this country, we've seen a lot of people, the photos |
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