Malala Yousafzai, Briana Corrigan, Exclamation marks

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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NB: The music in this broadcast has been removed from this podcast for rights reasons.

Thrust onto the public stage at 15 years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai became an international icon for resilience and bravery. Described as a reflection on a life of a woman finally taking charge of her destiny, her memoir Finding My Way has just been published. She joins Anita Rani in the Woman’s Hour studio.

Anita talks to sport correspondent FFion Wynne about the Indian women's cricket team win against Australia in the Women's Cricket World Cup, and up and coming player Jemimah Rodriques. She set a women's one day international record - a remarkable achievement.

Briana Corrigan shot to fame in the 1990s with the BRIT award-winning band, The Beautiful South. After leaving the band, she’s had several successful albums of her own and now, after 10 years away from the music industry, she’s back with an upcoming album and tour. She performs her single Sweet Songbird live in the studio.

A new study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology in which researchers looking at how the use of explanation marks relates to gender. Their findings suggest that the use of explanation marks is associated more with women than men. But is this true and if so in what ways are women affected more than men and what are the implications? Anita is joined by the linguist, Professor Deborah Cameron and the author and journalist Melanie McDonough to discuss.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.
0:10.5	Evil genius.
0:11.6	He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.
0:15.5	That's like hiding at your own funeral.
0:17.1	Yeah, a bit great gig.
0:18.6	I'm Russell Kane.
0:19.6	Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.
0:43.2	Hi, I'm Nula McGovern and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. While you're here,
0:48.3	I wanted to let you know about the Woman's Hour Guide to Life, your toolkit for the juggle, the struggle and everything in between. Life is complicated and often incredibly busy. So whether you're fixing a problem
0:56.6	at one of life's crossroads or just looking to shake things up a bit, this is the guide you'll
1:01.8	need to help you survive and even thrive. Each episode brings together world-class experts
1:08.3	with women sharing their honest, powerful stories, offering real
1:12.3	insight and also practical tips that really work. From work and career to relationships
1:17.9	and family issues, the focus is on helping you grow, also adapt and overcome life's curve
1:24.7	walls. It's your companion, your life coach, it's your Woman's Hour
1:29.2	Guide to Life. Join us only on BBC Sounds, but now back to today's Woman's Hour. Good morning and
1:36.8	welcome to the program. At age 11, she was on TV telling the world about life under Taliban
1:43.1	control. By 15, she'd had gained so much influence that the extremists tried to kill her.
1:48.8	By 17, she'd won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1:51.4	And today, Malala Yusuf Sae is here at the Woman's Hour office to tell us about how life has panned out since.
1:58.2	Also on the programme, music from Brianna Corrigan.
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