Marianne Jean-Baptiste, WSL record signing, India rape case

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It has been reported that USA women's footballer Naomi Girma has agreed terms to join Chelsea FC for a world record transfer fee of £900,000 or $1.1 million. Anita Rani is joined by Tom Garry, Woman’s Football writer at The Guardian.

Nearly three decades ago, Marianne Jean-Baptiste was Oscar nominated for her role in Mike Leigh’s film Secrets & Lies. Now, she’s receiving rave reviews with a stand-out performance in his latest film, Hard Truths. With an almost entirely black cast, Hard Truths explores complex family dynamics. Marianne plays unhappy housewife Pansy. She's in the Woman's Hour studio.

As the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas enters its fifth day, we look at the experiences of women and children on both sides. A 19-year-old journalist Malak A. Tantesh living in a camp in Gaza explains her reality now the ceasefire has come in to effect. We also hear from Mandy Damari – mother of Emily, one of the hostages released on Sunday.

Have you connected with a loved one after they have died? Maybe it was through a passion they had or introduced you to. Jula connected with her late father by sharing his extensive record collection online. She joins Anita.

The rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor in a hospital in Kolkata, India, in August prompted marches and strikes nationwide over safety issues for female doctors. There were calls for her rapist, Sanjay Roy, to be given the death penalty but, when it came to sentencing this week, the judge commented that he had considered all the evidence and did not consider the case to be a "rarest-of-rare" crime and instead sentenced Roy to life imprisonment. We hear from Divya Arya, women’s affairs journalist for BBC Delhi.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:05.2	My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.
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0:44.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:49.1	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:55.5	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:57.8	Marianne Jean-Baptiste was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Secrets and Lies 30 years ago,
1:03.6	the first Black British actress to get a nomination.
1:07.1	And she may well get another later today for Hard Truths.
1:10.1	Another Mike Lee film, she's brilliant in it and will be joining me in a moment.
1:14.8	Our focus on the experience of women and girls on both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict continues.
1:21.5	Today, we hear from a 19-year-old Palestinian woman describing how the ceasefire is affecting her.
1:29.1	Also, on Woman's Hour,
1:35.6	after Jula's father died, she was given his records. All 10,000 of them, she's making her way through them and sharing them with her many followers on Instagram and discovering more about her
1:40.0	father in the process. So this morning, I'd like to know what helped you reconnect with someone
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