meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Woman's Hour

Kamala Harris and 'brat summer', Holocaust documentary, Comedian Sashi Perera

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has been inspired by Charli XCX and her recent album release, brat. The link between the two is all over social media – but what does it all mean? Nuala McGovern is joined by former Editor-in-Chief of Vice and co-host of the Good Bad Billionaire podcast on BBC World Service to explain the trend, and columnist for The Times, Alice Thomson on Kamala Harris’ appeal to women.

A new film, The Commandant’s Shadow, follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz who masterminded the murder of more than a million Jews. While Hans enjoyed a happy childhood playing with many toys in the family villa, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch played cello in the orchestra to survive the notorious concentration camp. Eight decades later, the two come face-to-face, together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch. Anita and Maya join Nuala to tell their story.

A new study has found that women in Scotland have reached a landmark moment in business - with the number of female entrepreneurs matching the number of men for the first time. Nuala is joined by primary school teacher turned tech entrepreneur Genna Masterton who runs a business in Glasgow.

Former refugee lawyer turned comedian Sashi Perera joins Nuala to discuss who we choose as our emergency contacts and her new stand-up show, Boundaries.

A new malaria vaccine, licenced for children five months and older, began its roll out in the Ivory Coast last week. Nuala is joined by Dr Mehreen Datoo, who played a pivotal role in the vaccine’s development, after her own experience of malaria almost took her life.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

He is Brian Cox.

0:02.8

Hello.

0:03.3

And he understands science.

0:05.4

I'm Robin Ince and I don't understand it quite so much.

0:09.0

Could he tell us something about the nature of matter?

0:11.3

Nope.

0:12.0

Okay, good.

0:13.2

Together we'll be joined by a collection of experts and non-expert guests.

0:18.6

What's going on?

0:19.8

Don't you know.

0:21.6

Taking a look at some of the most wonderful things

0:24.4

in the scientific world.

0:25.9

Science with Funny Bits, The Infinite Monkey Cage

0:29.3

on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. B. C. Sounds. Music Radio Podcasts.

0:37.0

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

0:41.0

Just to say that for rights reasons the music in the original

0:44.5

radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

0:47.5

Hello and welcome to Women's Hour.

0:50.3

Anita Lasker Valfish is 99 years old and a Holocaust survivor. I'm going to be speaking to

0:57.0

Anita and her daughter Maya about why they decided to meet with the family of the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1:04.8

where over a million people were killed. It is an extraordinary story. An Anita's

1:10.1

history is a harrowing reminder of the vast loss of life that took place at that time.

...

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 2026.