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Hello and a warm welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour,

where we turn the temperature up on the stories that matter,

and I should say, anything goes.

Joining me around the table today on this merry romp through news and views,

neuroscientist Sophie Scott,

space scientist and broadcaster Maggie Adamin Pocock,

and barrister Samantha

welcome to all of you. Thank you for being here. Samantha, can I start with you on this?

Yes. You're going to talk to us about modern slavery. Yes. Why did you want to shine a light on it?

So the reason I wanted to talk about it is because actually there are approximately 40 million

people in the world still living in slavery.

And I think that figure is staggering.

So approximately 33.5 million are in Southeast Asia, people in slavery, and approximately nine million in Africa.

So we can think of these things as happening elsewhere and beyond our borders.

But why I want to bring it up is because actually it has real relevance for us here.

Because actually these people are working on Thai fish farms or fishing vessels.

They are working on cocoa farms where we get our chocolate.

They are working on tea plantations in Assam.

They're working in stone factories in Rajasthan.

There are children mining Mika, which produces the glimmer and shimmer we get in our

makeup and our cars. You know, so these things, although yes, the victims of modern slavery,

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