Lorraine Kelly, Actor and boxer Kali Reis, Presenter Gemma Cairney
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Lorraine Kelly CBE has been described as the queen of morning television. She joined TV-am as their Scottish correspondent in 1984 and, save for a brief maternity leave 30 years ago, has barely left the schedules since - for the last 14 as host of ITV’s Lorraine. Now after a lifetime of wanting to, she has written her first novel, The Island Swimmer, a story of family secrets, island communities and overcoming fear. Lorraine joins Anita Rani to discuss her novel, her life and her 40-year career.
The deaths of three women in one week, all allegedly murdered by their husbands, has caused outrage in Somalia and sparked days of protests over the country’s femicide rates. Police have named the suspects in all three killings, which took place in the first week of February, as the dead women’s husbands. Two of the victims were pregnant. The BBC's Fardowsa Hanshi, a video journalist with the Somali Service explains what's going on.
Kali Reis is the breakout star of True Detective: Night Country. As the series nears its finale on Sky Atlantic on Monday, Kali joins Anita in the Woman’s Hour studio to talk about going from a career in boxing to acting with Jodie Foster. She is also an indigenous rights activist, who has Native American and African heritage, and was the first indigenous woman fighter to become a World Champion.
Last month, Woman's Hour discussed a shocking report which warned of endemic misogyny and discrimination in the music industry. MPs from the Women and Equalities Committee found that sexual harassment and abuse is common. That report has resonated with many – and not just in the music industry. Award-winning broadcaster Gemma Cairney has written a piece in The Guardian about her experience, saying she’d battled racism and misogyny in creative industries for years. Gemma tells us about the reaction to her piece. Professor of Media, Culture and Communications at Brunel University Sarita Malik will explain why Gemma’s experience is so widespread in broadcasting.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey Studio Manager: Neva Missirian
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Ronson and I'm an invisible enemy. |
| 0:05.0 | That changed people psychologically. |
| 0:08.0 | Words can be dangerous if you don't know the context. |
| 0:12.0 | We were told to stay at home. |
| 0:15.0 | We lived with an invisible enemy, |
| 0:17.0 | with only the internet for company. |
| 0:19.0 | That changed people psychologically. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm John Ronson, and I'll be unerthing the roots of the |
| 0:24.4 | culture wars that engulfed us then and still do now. |
| 0:29.2 | The award-winning podcast, Things Fell Apart Returns. |
| 0:33.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:40.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.0 | Good morning and welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour. |
| 0:48.0 | We have a packed show with a very powerful lineup of women for me to speak to, |
| 0:52.0 | but then that comes with the |
| 0:53.6 | women's at our territory. In fact, one of them is sitting opposite me right now. |
| 0:57.5 | I'm not actually going to introduce you. I think if I just ask you a question and |
| 1:00.6 | you speak, people will know who you are. How are you? How's your morning |
| 1:03.8 | being? It's been fantastic. Thank you and it's so lovely to be here. It's wonderful to |
| 1:09.1 | have you here to Lorraine Kelly. Infront to me we'll be talking to in just a moment. Also on the |
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