meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Woman's Hour

HER Ensemble, Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Surrogacy & IVF in Ukraine, Anne Dickson

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Emma speaks to BBC Ukraine correspondent Zhanna Bezpiatchuk about the situation in Ukraine. Today the Commons discuss the long-awaited Economic Crimes Bill. A cross party alliance of MPs will be tabling amendments to strengthen the bill. Amongst them is Labour MP, Dame Margaret Hodge who has been calling for tougher anti-corruption laws for many years, and has said there are "worrying loopholes in the bill". She joins Emma Last year, just 5% of the classical music pieces performed worldwide were written by women. That’s the highest percentage recorded to date. When the violinist Ellie Consta found this out she brought together a string orchestra called Her Ensemble to perform a range of music written by women. Ellie and violinist Sarah Daramy-Williams joins Emma. Anne Dickson's book, A Woman in your own Right: The art of assertive, clear and honest communication, was first published 40 years ago. It has been in print ever since. Anne joins Emma to outline the skills and techniques she pioneered and to discuss why she believes they are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. One of the unforeseeable consequences of the war in Ukraine is how it has affected the hundreds of people from the UK and Ireland who visit the country every year to undergo fertility treatment or use Ukrainian surrogates. This has left families in a quandary about whether or not to continue treatment, and worried about the welfare of surrogate mothers and what could happen to any babies born during the conflict. Emma hears from Senator Mary Seery Kearney who is campaigning for surrogate women to be given refuge in Ireland and from Rend Platings who was due to return there this month for her next round of IVF. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.7

This morning the government has called Russian plans for a temporary ceasefire to allow civilians

0:17.1

access to humanitarian corridors which lead to either Baloruse or Russia cynical beyond belief.

0:23.6

James Cleveley, Minister for Europe and North America's told the BBC that providing

0:27.6

evacuation into the arms of the country that is currently destroying yours is an nonsense.

0:33.0

A spokesperson for the Ukrainian President, President Zelensky, has called the proposal

0:37.7

completely immoral, saying Russia was trying to use people suffering to create a television

0:43.1

picture.

0:44.2

That suffering has included four people, including a mother and two children, killed in

0:48.1

mortifier, as residents were fleeing airpins near Kiev.

0:52.2

As pressure grows on governments around the world to make the war end, what do you want

0:57.1

to see happen to force change and ultimately end the war?

1:01.2

One woman, Labour MP Day Margaret Hodg thinks part of the answer comes from economic sanctions

1:06.2

and exerting pressure on major city or European banks to shut their Moscow offices.

1:11.4

She joins me shortly.

1:13.0

But what about you?

1:14.0

You'll hear the details from a cross-party alliance of MPs of what they can do perhaps

1:18.0

to exert pressure economically.

1:20.3

But what do you want to see change?

1:22.3

84844, that's the number to text me here at Woman's Hour.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.