Leaving friends on a night out; Emma Gannon; Black women and photography; Asylum seeking women in lockdown;
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Michaela Coel’s BBC drama ‘I May Destroy You’ has brought to light a number of interesting dilemmas, particularly within the realm of female friendships. Today we ask – is it okay to leave a friend on a night out? If a friend is too drunk or too disorderly to take care of themselves, but refuses to leave the venue or get in a cab, what can and should you do? Harriet Marsden is a freelance journalist. Toni Tone is a public speaker and podcast presenter.
A new report by the SistersNotStrangers coalition, a group of 8 women’s organisations across the country, reveals the hardships experienced by asylum-seeking women in England and Wales during the pandemic. They say women have been homeless and hungry during the pandemic and are calling for ‘far-reaching’ reforms of the asylum process. Jane hears from Loraine Mponela who has sought asylum and Natasha Walter, Director of Women for Refugee Women and one of organisations behind the report.
Emma Gannon’s heroine Olive is thirty three and childfree by choice. She has a dream job, close friends and her life might seem Instagram-perfect. But, things are complicated. Her relationships and friendships are changing and other people’s expectations are hemming her in. Adult life is not turning out as she thought it would and Olive needs to take stock. Writer, podcaster and now novelist Emma Gannon joins Jane.
The gymnast Simone Biles is on the cover of Vogue’s August 2020 issue, but critics have said the photoshoot highlights why there needs to be more diversity in the photography industry. Jane discusses the issues of photographing black women, both in front of and behind the camera, with the photographer Ola Adegoroye and Lazara Storm, who works as a commercial model and is now moving behind the scenes.
Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Sarah Crawley Interviewed guest: Loraine Mponela Interviewed guest: Natasha Walter Interviewed guest: Emma Gannon Interviewed guest: Ola Adegoroye Interviewed guest: Lazara Storm Interviewed guest: Harriet Marsden Interviewed guest: Toni Tone
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey. It's the Woman's Hour podcast. It's Monday, July, the 20th, |
| 0:10.4 | 2020. |
| 0:11.4 | Hi there, good morning. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to another week on the program. Today, I'm going to be talking to the novelist |
| 0:15.6 | Emma Ganon, her latest book, Olive. It's her first fiction, and it's about a 33-year-old |
| 0:21.2 | woman child-free by choice. Is that really still controversial? Let us know what you think |
| 0:26.8 | about that. Simone Biles has been on the recent cover of American Vogue, photographed |
| 0:32.3 | by Annie Leibovitz, and a claim photographer, of course, but not everybody liked the images. |
| 0:37.8 | We're asking today whether we need more diversity in photography. And if you haven't seen, |
| 0:43.2 | I may destroy you. You probably should start watching this incredible BBC series by |
| 0:48.3 | Michaela Cole. It has started so many conversations. And this morning, we look at just one aspect |
| 0:53.8 | of that remarkable series. Your responsibility to your mates on a night out. I guess we've |
| 0:59.6 | all been there at some point in our social lives. What happened to you? Who looked out |
| 1:03.9 | for you? Did you look after somebody else? Let us know at BBC Woman's Hour on Twitter |
| 1:10.4 | or Instagram as well, of course. And you can email our program whenever you like via |
| 1:14.8 | the website, BBC.co.uk slash Woman's Hour. Now, there's no doubt that life has been |
| 1:20.5 | difficult or indeed quite challenging for many of us over the last couple of months, |
| 1:25.0 | but spare a thought this morning for asylum-seeking women. A new report by the Sisters Not Strangers |
| 1:31.1 | Coalition, a group of eight women's organisations across the country, reveals the real hardship |
| 1:36.6 | experienced by asylum-seeking women in England and Wales. The report says women have been |
| 1:42.2 | made homeless and become hungry during the pandemic, and the entire asylum process needs |
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