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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.7 | Good morning, welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour. |
0:13.3 | Today we're talking about aunties and I don't just mean the auntie who's your actual |
0:18.1 | relation, not your mom's sister, if you're brought up in a black or Asian household, |
0:22.8 | you'll know exactly who I'm on about. |
0:24.8 | Basically, any woman older than you is referred to as an auntie out of respect. |
0:29.9 | There is nowhere in this world geographically that I've knocked with that auntie, right? |
0:33.7 | There's always someone who feels like high and someone who feels like I feel loved by |
0:38.2 | and taking care of. |
0:39.2 | I was brought up in a single parent household so it was just my mom and her army of aunties. |
0:43.7 | That's a clip of Tolly, Sean, I spoke to her along with Anchal, Seder, Likper, Alia and |
0:48.8 | you'll be hearing that in the show. |
0:50.5 | But these aunties are also a community network who love nothing more than a bit of gossip |
0:55.4 | and judgment. |
0:56.4 | So today we're lifting the lid on anti-culture, shaming them before they can shaymas. |
1:00.5 | I want to hear your stories about aunties today. |
1:03.1 | How have your community of aunties impacted your life? |
1:07.0 | In my book, I actually give them a name, The Illuminati, Your Business is their business. |
1:11.6 | And there is great comedy in aunties and there can be great strength in community, but |
1:16.8 | they can also have a very negative impact or a suffocating impact if you like on the |
1:21.5 | lives of both men and women. |
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