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Woman's Hour

Maria Callas, Loulou Storey & Lucy Adlington on casual workwear, International Aid legal challenge & slavery reparations

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Maria Callas is one of the most famous opera singers. She was brought up in New York and Greece by an emotionally abusive mother who forced her to sing. Despite being admired by Hollywood stars and royalty, she fought sexism to rise to the top but never had a happy private life. Lyndsy Spence's new book Cast a Diva draws on previously unseen documents to reveal her tragic story.

Stacie Marshall has inherited her family's farm in a small Appalachian valley in the US state of Georgia. She'd vaguely known about the history of her family and their land but it wasn't until she moved into her grandparents house that she realised her family had in fact owned seven enslaved people. Now Stacie, the only young woman running a farm in the valley, is trying to make amends for the wrongs of her ancestors. She joins us live from Georgia and we also hear from Nkechi Taifa a civil and human rights lawyer and long-standing reparations advocate.

A charity that provides sexual and reproductive support to disadvantaged women around the world is threatening legal action against the UK government, over their recent decision to cut the international aid budget by around £4 billion. We speak to Mina Barlow, Director for External Relations at The International Planned Parenthood Foundation.

And we look at the new casual officewear trends with Fashion Historian Lucy Adlington & Style Coach Loulou Storey to consider if the way we dress for work has changed forever?

Presenter: Chloe Tilley Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Sue Maillot

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.1

Hello, thank you for joining me, Chloe Tilley here

0:07.3

on the Woman's Air Podcast.

0:09.3

Good morning, welcome to Monday's program.

0:11.8

Now here in England today, today is the day

0:14.2

when virtually all COVID restrictions are lifted,

0:17.4

including an end to social distancing,

0:19.6

dubbed by the tabloids as freedom day,

0:21.9

but the government has tried to rein that in in recent days.

0:24.6

So what does freedom day mean to you today?

0:28.1

What will you be doing differently?

0:29.6

Anything? Nothing?

0:31.2

Are you nervous about heading out to the shops

0:33.0

or going on public transport in case unmasked people

0:35.9

get too close?

0:36.8

Or are you actually just looking forward

0:38.4

to another step closer to normal life?

0:41.4

Of course, if you're in Scotland,

0:42.6

if you're in Wales or Northern Ireland,

0:44.0

are you watching what happens in England

0:45.6

with a sense of unease or maybe it's envy?

0:48.5

Text us now on 84844.

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