Lionesses win Finalissima, Good Friday Agreement, Tanya Sarne, Windrush, Angie Thomas

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Unbeaten for 30 games, last night the Lionesses won Finalissima. Jess Creighton discusses with Tom Garry, who talks about the game last night, the Lionesses road to the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, and Wales beating Northern Ireland in Cardiff last night.

Today marks 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed - bringing peace to Northern Ireland after 30 years of conflict. To mark this Jess Creighton is joined by two women working to continue that peace. Aoife Smith is the programme manager for Community Dialogue, an organisation which aims to build trust amongst people who hold opposing political, social and religious views and Hilary Copeland who is the Director of Fighting Words NI, an arts and education charity for children and young people.

Tanya Sarne was the woman behind the fashion brand Ghost. Launched in 1984, it became one of the biggest independent fashion brands in the 90s, famous for its outrageous parties and incredibly wearable but beautiful clothes. An only child to refugee parents, Tanya fell into fashion as an unemployed single mother of two, desperately trying to make a living. She's now written about her extraordinary life in a memoir, Free Spirit.

The civil rights group Black Equity Organisation is launching legal action following the Home Secretary's decision to drop three recommendations from the independent Windrush inquiry. The recommendations in question are the establishment of a Migrants’ Commissioner, an increase in the powers of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and the running of reconciliation events. We discuss the reasons behind the judicial review with the CEO of the Black Equity Organisation, Dr Wanda Wyporska.

Angie Thomas is the global bestselling author of the novel The Hate U Give which was published in 2017, it became a best-seller and a film. Now, she has turned her hand to writing for younger readers with her new book Nic Blake And The Remarkables. Angie joins Jess Creighton to discuss.

Presented by Jess Creighton Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Beverley Purcell

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.6	Hello, I'm Jessica Criton. Welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:09.8	Good morning. Welcome to the program. Lovely to have your company today.
0:13.8	Now on the program we'll be looking at how political decisions can have a big impact
0:18.8	on people's lives. With it being the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday
0:23.0	Agreement, we'll be talking to two women at the forefront of ensuring peace continues
0:28.6	in Northern Ireland. They'll tell us about how that political agreement impacted their
0:33.9	lives. How young people in Northern Ireland are now engaging with politics and why women
0:38.7	are pivotal to upholding the agreement. Also, political decisions that can impact people's
0:44.8	confidence in government after the Home Office decided to drop three of the 30 Windrush
0:50.3	reforms it had previously agreed to. Civil Rights Group, the Black Equity Organisation,
0:56.1	is now seeking a judicial review. They'll tell me why they believe the Home Secretary's
1:01.0	decision is unlawful. Also, on the program, best-selling author Angie
1:06.0	Thomas, whose debut novel The Hate You Give, explored police brutality and activism in the
1:11.6	African-American community. She'll be telling us about why she's now turned her hand to
1:16.2	the fantasy genre. She'll be live from Atlanta in the US, so waking up very early for us.
1:22.5	This will be her first UK broadcast interview about her new book, Very Exciting. Another
1:28.3	woman who has recently been published is Tanya Sahn. Tanya is the woman behind Fashion
1:33.0	Brand Ghost, which became one of the biggest independent fashion brands in the 1990s. They
1:39.1	were known as much for their clothes, as they were for their A-list parties. Tanya will
1:45.6	be with us in the studio to discuss her life, everything from divorce, being a single mum
1:50.7	and addiction to drugs and alcohol, which is all detailed in her new memoir.
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