Lashana Lynch, Labour Conference & women, Being married to an anti-vaxxer, Universal credit uplift
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
No Time To Die - the new James bond film that comes out this Thursday, sees actor Daniel Craig grace our screens as the famous British spy for the last time. The first "Blonde Bond" is stepping away from the role after five films and 15 years. But that's not the only change going on. London-born actor Lashana Lynch has made history - she is the first black female 007. Emma speaks to her about her character, Nomi, taking on those three special numbers and taking part in the famous franchise.
As their conference continues, how is Labour doing on women? Emma speaks to Helen Lewis, staff writer at the Atlantic - former deputy editor of the New Statesman and to Ian Murray, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland.
People who get Universal Credit got an extra £20 a week when the pandemic started. It was to help families who were struggling. But the government says that extra money will be removed next month, and it was always a temporary measure. The Conservative peer, Baroness Philippa Stroud is against the cut. She worked with Iain Duncan Smith to bring in Universal Credit in 2013. She joins Emma to discuss.
The pandemic has taken its toll on many marriages and partnerships, for a variety of different reasons. For one Woman’s Hour listener, something she couldn't possibly have predicted happened. Her husband of 15 years became a Covid conspiracy theorist, almost overnight. It's no exaggeration to say that it has torn their family apart. She got in touch because she wanted to share her story in case it can help others
Presented by Emma Barnett Producer Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. Mine involved a slightly inebriated young woman vomiting on herself and me on a train to Manchester |
| 0:55.3 | at 10 o'clock in the morning. To my own surprise I sighed, got some tissues out and asked if she was |
| 1:00.1 | okay before I found myself laughing at the situation. Deep breaths all around. I've |
| 1:05.7 | changed. So on a personal note I'm in the market for some of your worst train stories this morning |
| 1:10.1 | just to get us through another Monday. But speaking of travel, which of course you can't do today without thinking about fuel, |
| 1:15.9 | lots of labor members made their way to brighten this weekend for the party's annual conference. |
| 1:21.2 | And it was there during a fringe event that the most |
| 1:23.4 | senior woman in labor called Conservatives scum. Homophobic, racist, misogynistic |
| 1:29.4 | scum to be precise. I'm talking about Angela Rayna, Labor's deputy leader. She was speaking to |
| 1:34.8 | some of the party faithful and has refused to apologize for her language, saying she will do |
| 1:39.8 | so when the Prime Minister, as she puts it, apologises for past comments he made that are |
| 1:44.8 | homophobic, racist and misogynistic, a reference to Boris Johnson's previous remarks, |
| 1:49.6 | including comparing, Berka-wearing Muslim women's letter letterboxes and describing gay men as tank-topped bum boys. |
| 1:56.3 | It isn't the first time that Angela Rayna has called those on the opposition bench's scum. |
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