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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Hello, this is Nulam Agauverin and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:09.4 | Yes, hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. |
0:12.5 | I want to begin this programme in Iran. |
0:16.7 | We're going to talk about what has happened there. |
0:18.3 | The Supreme Leader has pardoned tens of thousands of prisoners, including many linked to anti-government |
0:23.3 | protests. |
0:24.3 | So you'll remember that women took to the streets to demand reforms of the laws that limit |
0:28.2 | what women can wear and do in public. |
0:31.2 | And that was after the death of 22-year-old Masa Amini in police custody. |
0:35.6 | But what we want to ask is what do these pardons mean for the women's movement now? |
0:40.6 | So that's coming up in just a moment. |
0:43.7 | Maybe over the past weekend you're watching rugby. |
0:46.1 | Well the Welsh rugby fans, they belted out the Tom Jones classic Delilah. |
0:50.4 | That was despite the Welsh rugby union ban inquires from singing it at international matches. |
0:55.1 | Now the ban is due to misogyny, as it says in the lyrics, including a reference to a woman |
1:00.3 | being murdered by her jammas partner. |
1:02.8 | But the ban is controversial. |
1:04.6 | And I'm wondering how do you see it? |
1:06.8 | Is it time for Delilah and songs like it to go? |
1:09.6 | Should we be more aware of the lyrics to songs that are sung at public events? |
1:13.6 | Or is this all a step too far? |
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