4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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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. |
0:10.4 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:12.4 | I hope your weekend's treated you well and you're enjoying or at least able to appreciate |
0:16.6 | the official start of Spring. |
0:18.9 | But on today's programme a striking new report which lays bare the extent some women are |
0:23.2 | going to to help make ends meet as the costs of living continue to rise ahead of the |
0:28.5 | Chancellor's Spring Statement on Wednesday. |
0:31.5 | We try to diagnose why some women are having to turn to the so-called Black Market for |
0:35.4 | their HR team medicine. |
0:37.5 | And let me ask you this, could you wear the same dress a hundred days in a row? |
0:41.9 | Why thousands of women around the world are taking this particular challenge on? |
0:46.2 | More details to come. |
0:48.0 | But first, my first guest this morning is our woman in Ukraine. |
0:51.8 | Except she isn't in Ukraine anymore, a country she's called home since 2019. |
0:56.7 | The British ambassador to the Ukraine, Melinda Simmons, held out there until the 7th of |
1:01.0 | March, 11 days after the Russian invasion began. |
1:04.6 | But then she joined the women and children, blankets wrapped tightly around them, queuing |
1:09.0 | across the border to Poland. |
1:11.4 | And that's where she joins me from this morning, Melinda Simmons, good morning. |
1:14.6 | Good morning. |
1:15.6 | Good to be with you. |
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