Lily Cole, Hasina Safi, Youmna Mouhamad

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Lily Cole is a model, actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, podcast host and environmental activist. She's written a book about the climate, offering solutions to global challenges. She now lives in Portugal but we speak to her from COP26 in Glasgow. We also speak to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg who sets the scene for us in Glasgow.

We go back to Hasina Safi, who used to be Women's Minister in Afghanistan. Now she's a refugee in the UK, living in an hotel. We find out how things are for her and her family since we spoke to her last month.

We speak to Dr Youmna Mouhamad who's designed a new comb to make conditioning and combing afro hair easier and less painful. She explains how she came up with idea and how she moved from a concept to a engineered product.

And finally Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green about secondary school children getting vaccines, and protests outside schools. Labour are now calling for exclusion zones around schools to "stop the spread of misinformation".

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.0	Hello, and welcome to the programme. It's good to be back.
0:13.8	The majority of you will not be in Glasgow,
0:16.4	at apparently the UK's biggest event in terms of numbers of world leaders,
0:20.2	COP26, the Global Climate Change Summit,
0:23.2	at which presidents and prime ministers meet to try and keep a check on each other
0:26.9	about what they're going to do about climate change.
0:29.4	There are also campaigners, scientists, royal family members, celebrities,
0:33.3	and, of course, journalists in attendance.
0:35.8	Shortly, I'll be talking to our political editor, Laura Koonsberg,
0:38.4	who's there, and also the environment campaigner and model Lily Cole.
0:42.3	But what's already being called flop 26 by some,
0:46.4	especially after a weekend meeting of G20 leaders fail to commit to going carbon neutral by 2050
0:52.1	and ceasing to use coal,
0:53.8	and with a new study commissioned by the Telegraph out today showing more than 50% of people
0:58.7	do not trust the government to recommend the right solutions for making their homes heated,
1:03.8	cars and air travel more environmentally friendly in the ways that are deemed to be so at the moment.
1:09.8	My question to you today is, how much faith do you have in our leaders?
1:13.8	In our political, elected leaders coming together in Glasgow, most of them,
1:19.2	not all, to set the world on the right course.
1:22.3	And what are you doing to make a difference in your life?
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