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Woman's Hour

Maya Sondhi, Aunties, Consulate Failings

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Maya Sondhi has made a name for herself in television dramas like Silent Witness and Line Of Duty. But now she's in the writer’s chair, and she's behind a new police drama called DI Ray. It follows DI Rachita Ray who's promoted to join a ‘Culturally Specific Homicide’ investigation. Rachita suspects there's something else going on here. Rebecca Hilsenrath from The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman talks about failings of the Foreign Office when dealing with a 2018 rape complaint in Turkey. She describes how a British woman who was raped when she was on holiday went to the Consulate for help but was told, "Carry on with your holiday and enjoy it." The woman, who's remaining anonymous, first complained about the response she got from Consulate officials, and then how the Foreign Office dealt with it. Her complaint’s been upheld. We have our last part of Life After Divorce. Today we're hearing from Sita who talks about getting divorced from her wife. They didn't have children or shared assets but, she says, in a way that made the split harder to deal with. And we talk about the "aunties". You know: they're the older women in the community who we should respect. But to be honest, they might be suffocating and judgemental as well as motherly. We speak to podcaster and writer, Tolly Shoneye who honoured her Nigerian aunties in her book, Keep the Receipts, and Anchal Seda who's a podcast host and author of What Would The Aunties Say.

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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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