4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly, welcome to Woman's Air from BBC Radio 4. |
0:09.5 | Hello and welcome to the programme, good to have your company. |
0:12.4 | Now we're joined today by two successful women who regularly grace our TV screens. |
0:17.3 | Mira Cial, actress and comedian amongst other things is here to talk to us about her latest |
0:21.7 | role, she's with me in the studio and we're going to speak shortly. |
0:25.1 | Then later on, Esme Young, one of the judges on the great British sewing bee will be here |
0:29.4 | to talk to us about her new book. |
0:31.3 | It charts her life from going to boarding school at the age of five to setting up an all-female |
0:36.0 | fashion house, which is one of the first to use Lycra all the way to our TV screens. |
0:40.7 | And slightly ironically, she's never owned a TV, but we'll talk to her about that as |
0:43.9 | well. |
0:44.9 | And we're also going to be talking about the Holmes-Few Crane scheme. |
0:47.4 | After the United Nations refugee agency raised concerns about women's safety. |
0:52.1 | The UNHCR says women and mothers with children should only be matched with couples and families |
0:57.4 | not single men after increasing reports of female refugees feeling at risk from male sponsors. |
1:03.7 | We'll hear from refugee action. |
1:05.4 | And also a Times journalist who went undercover posing as a 22-year-old Ukrainian woman wanting |
1:10.9 | to come to the UK. |
1:12.4 | Plus, the female prisoners from an ethnic minority background who are experiencing racism in English |
1:17.4 | jails. |
1:18.4 | A new report describes their experiences as shocking and distressing. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.