Kanye West allegations, SEND, Author Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A model who alleges Kanye West choked her on a music video set has told the BBC she was left feeling "suffocated, unsure and scared". Jennifer An, a former contestant on America's Next Top Model, is suing the rapper, now known as Ye, over an encounter she alleges took place in 2010. Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty, presenter of BBC podcast Fame Under Fire, has interviewed Jennifer An and joins us to explain the story.
A British woman has become the first ever to cross the Atlantic in a hydrogen gas balloon. Alicia Hempleman-Adams, from near Bath, set off from Maine in the US late on Wednesday and landed in Luxembourg on Sunday with her teammates Bert Padelt and Peter Cuneo. Alicia Hempleman-Adams took the spot on the crew of her father David, who has completed the flight twice before. She joins us live.
The government has just announced how it is planning to roll out quicker and easier access to educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, and occupational therapists for SEND families. Nuala speaks to the Schools Minister Georgia Gould plus Principal Educational Psychologist for Salford Claire Jackson about the upcoming Experts at Hand programme.
And the award-winning writer and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa devoted three years of her life to researching and imagining the lives of the women who once inhabited the Victorian asylum in Cork. In her immersive work of creative non-fiction, Said the Dead, we meet some of the women who lived and worked in that institution between the 1890s and the 1920s. Doireann Ní Ghríofa joins Nuala to explain how she went about writing these vulnerable, often voiceless women back to life.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Simon Richardson
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | From that crazy viral video to bizarre trends that are taking over our social feeds. |
| 0:12.7 | We investigate the stuff you're scrolling through in our brand new podcast, top comment. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm BBC correspondent, Mariana Spring. |
| 0:20.2 | And I'm investigative reporter Matt Shea. Every week we look at the |
| 0:23.1 | stories spilling out from our screens and into real life to work out what's actually real and what's not |
| 0:28.7 | top comment listen on BBC sounds. Hello this is Newell McGovern and you're listening to the |
| 0:36.8 | Woman's Hour podcast. Hello and welcome to the programme. Well, this morning we continue our conversations on send with the schools minister, Georgia Gould. As part of the government's changes to the English system, they are promising more of what they call experts at hand. So specialist support for children will hear when parents might be able to expect to see them. |
| 0:57.1 | Also, the model who made allegations of sexual assault and strangling against the rapper, |
| 1:01.6 | Kanye West, has spoken to the BBC. |
| 1:03.9 | We will hear that story. |
| 1:05.7 | Plus, travelling for 70 hours, flying in a hydrogen gas balloon. |
| 1:13.3 | My guest landed in Luxembourg all the way from Maine in the United States and so became the first British woman to cross |
| 1:19.1 | the Atlantic in such a way. If you'd like to respond to anything you hear on the program, you can |
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| 1:32.6 | That number, 0300-100-400-444. |
| 1:37.1 | But we do begin with a story that contains some graphic descriptions of a sexual assault. |
| 1:42.5 | I do want to let you know that. |
| 1:45.6 | Because we want to speak about a model who alleges that Kanye West choked her on a music video set and she has told the BBC |
| 1:51.4 | she was left feeling suffocated, unsure and scared. Jennifer Arm, that it was a former contestant |
| 1:58.7 | on America's next top model, has brought legal action against the rapper. |
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